Mailing lists remain an important source of assistance, and are often haunted by Apple employees and by users of wisdom and experience:
Apple's AppleScript list:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Dartmouth's venerable MacScrpt list (in whose name the "i" is not only silent, it's downright absent):
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MACSCRPT&H=LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU
Apple's list for developers writing scriptable applications:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-implementors
Apple's AppleScript Studio list:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-studio