I can't say I'm a programming expert, but maybe some of these ideas would be of help:
1. If you force quit the Finder with the escape key combination, it will always open right back up. It's not like other programs where force quitting will simply terminate it. Perhaps a way to invoke that would work, although you'd still have to get around the pesky dialog box.
2. I'm not sure if Adam Stein is still around, but perhaps he'd have a contact somewhere. Since he wrote a program to actually quit the Finder and make it stay closed, he may have some insight on this subject. I'd imagine there's a challenge in getting around the Finder reopening since it seems to do this by default. System 7 was designed this way.
3. On Mac OS 9, if the Finder crashes, it re-opens. More proof that you simply need a way to get the Finder to quit to have it reopen.
Keep me posted on this--I'm interested to see how it turns out.
1. If you force quit the Finder with the escape key combination, it will always open right back up. It's not like other programs where force quitting will simply terminate it. Perhaps a way to invoke that would work, although you'd still have to get around the pesky dialog box.
2. I'm not sure if Adam Stein is still around, but perhaps he'd have a contact somewhere. Since he wrote a program to actually quit the Finder and make it stay closed, he may have some insight on this subject. I'd imagine there's a challenge in getting around the Finder reopening since it seems to do this by default. System 7 was designed this way.
3. On Mac OS 9, if the Finder crashes, it re-opens. More proof that you simply need a way to get the Finder to quit to have it reopen.
Keep me posted on this--I'm interested to see how it turns out.