Major thanks to both of you! Didn't know that /noop nor $findfile even existed. I got this to work just fine with your help. laugh

For anyone else who has this issue, here is my dialog with this workaround built-in.
I capitalized the parts that need to be edited to fit your specific setup, but this seems overall useable.

Code:
;Big thanks to SykO and Maroon for helping me create this!
alias scripts_dialog {
  dialog -m scripts_dialog scripts_dialog
}

dialog scripts_dialog {
  title "Scripts"
  size -1 -1 80 26
  option dbu
  button "Load", 1, 2 2 37 12
  button "Unload", 2, 41 2 37 12
  text "Scripts <placeholder>", 3, 2 16 76 8, center
}

on *:dialog:scripts_dialog:sclick:1-2:{
  noop $findfile(YOUR/FILEPATH,YOUR_FILE.NAME,0,.timer 1 $findfilen $did($dname, $did).text -rs $+ $calc(5+ $findfilen) $1-)
  did -a scripts_dialog 3 Scripts $did($dname, $did).text $+ ed.
}