Newbie, please help: error Writing data to a file.

Scraping session log extracts the text and then encounters a problem processing the script. I am demoing the pro version. token is ~@EXTRACTED_TEXT@~
this is what is shows (in vbscript):

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Processing script: "Write extracted data to a file"
An error occurred while processing the script: Write extracted data to a file
The error message was: Token Parsing Error: Lexical error at line 1, column 3. Encountered: "O" (79), after : "\' ".
Processing scripts after scraping session has ended.
Scraping session "test" finished.

this is what is shows (in interpreted java):

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Processing script: "Write extracted data to a file"
Writing data to a file.
An error occurred while processing the script: Write extracted data to a file
The error message was: The application script threw an exception: java.lang.NullPointerException BSF info: null at line: 0 column: columnNo
File from test: Processing scripts after all pattern applications.
Processing scripts after scraping session has ended.
Scraping session "test" finished.

extraction should be simple as all i'm trying to do is extract text from the same page, on a recurring basis. can someone help me through?