Building a standalone - problem 1

[jcwall at jaguar1.usouthal.edu]

I wonder if somebody could help me with building a standalone, a 
task which is new to me.

Here is what I am doing.  I have built two main stacks; 
“SLDataCollection” which I use to collect and store data and 
“SLResults” which is essentially a single card where I place the 
results for printing.  Everything works as planned on my mac 
(PowerBook G4, 10.3.3).

Now I would like to build a standalone.  Since I will be collecting 
and storing data the  “SLDataCollection” stack cannot be a 
standalone, therefore, following the docs and much advice from 
this list, I have mad a single card stack which will act as a splash 
screen.  This stack has a small animation and includes the 
following script:

on openstack
  set the loc of me to the screenLoc
  start using stack "SLDataCollection"
  start using stack "StepLengthresults"
 
animation stuff here - hides and shows fields

  lock screen
  go stack "SLDataCollection" in window "StepLength"
  unlock screen with visual barn door open
end openstack

I have put the two original main stacks in a folder “SLStuff” which is 
within a folder that contains the splash screen.

The first problem I am having is that this splash screen hangs up 
because it cannot locate the stacks in the start using commands.  If 
I open these stacks and close them again the splash screen works 
fine.  In reading the docs I think that I have to provide a filePath to 
these files in the “SLStuff” folder.  I have spent a frustrating few 
hours trying to get this done without success.  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated - and I haven't even built the standalone yet!

Jim Wall