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It's hard to say what your problem is, but it might be something to do 
with copying and pasting via Classic -- that was sometimes flakey in 
early versions of OS X. I'd seriously consider upgrading to 10.3, or at 
least 10.2.x.

You could also simplify your code quite a bit:

--Copy the selected text in InDesign. If an error occurs, alert the 
user.

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	activate
	set mySelection to selection
	try
		copy
	on error
		beep
		display dialog "Select a table to copy, then run the script again."
	end try
end tell

--Bring Microsoft Word to the front
--Create a new document in Word, paste the clipboard contents, then 
perform Table Macro,�
--which will save the document as HTML, strip all styles, and save 
again.
tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
make new document
paste
do Visual Basic "Table"
end tell

set theHD to "Macintosh HD:"
set thePath to theHD & "Users:username:Desktop:"
set theFile to "table.html"
set theText to read file (thePath & theFile)

--Switch back to InDesign
--Place table.html document into a new text frame, copy the HTML code, 
and paste over original table.
tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	activate
	select mySelection
	paste
end tell


--
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>