I have an AppleScript / FileMaker script combo that periodically times out, but I don't know why or where in the script the slowdown/failure is occurring (the AppleScript is called by Entourage and t

I have an AppleScript / FileMaker script combo that periodically times out, but I don't know why or where in the script the slowdown/failure is occurring (the AppleScript is called by Entourage and tells FileMaker to run a series of scripts).

I was thinking of writing to a log file at each step of my scripts (both Apple and FM), noting what step was happening with a time stamp.

Is there an accepted best practice for doing this? Should I call an AppleScript to write to a file each step of the way? Or maybe build up the log with calculations in a global text field in my database that I flush to a file at the end?

Thank you.