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Jay-- 

Another way to look at it: when you use a "standard" form of the repeat loop, as in: 

--where some_items is a collection object 
repeat with myCounter from 1 to (count some_items) 
 

It should be clear that the loop starts with item 1 and then counts to the end of the collection. As it does so, it increments the loop variable myCounter. So you can refer to one of the objects in the collection using the variable, as in: 

set myObject to item myCounter in some_items 
 

By default, the loop increments by 1 each time: 1, 2, 3, etc.--but we can change that using the "by" keyword, as in: 

repeat with myCounter from 5 to 100 by 5 
 

..which would make myCounter equal 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. We used a negative increment to make the loop count backwards through the list of items in the collection. 

I think you've got it already, but I just thought I'd add this (long winded, pedantic) explanation. 

Thanks, 

Ole