Possibly this is expected, but...

[J. Landman Gay]

John Vokey wrote:

 > That is, the existence of the preopenstack
> handler appears to block the generation of the openCard handler, but 
> only in StackRunner (and in a standalone, if I create one), but NOT in 
> either the two IDEs.  If I remove the preopenstack handler, everything 
> runs just fine (and the same) in the IDEs and StackRunner.

Could it be related to this one:

<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3843>

This was supposedly fixed in 2.9. Are you using that version? There's a 
second similar report, marked as a duplicate of this one.

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