Can't say for sure but my thought is that it should be unless you deleted it.
It should be in your Hal 7 directory as HalScript.dbg
If you should find this file, look to the right at the file's date and it should be sometime this month according to what you've said.
Yes, you can examine it with any word processor. Scroll down to the line in question and see what's there that might be causing the problem.
That's all I know about that. Your toy...play with it!