[AS CS3] setting fill color opacity

I want to change the fill opacity of a text box. So far I have only been able to set the opacity of the entire text box thru the blending settings of the transparency settings. The code I have below will set the entire text box to the opacity I want but the text inside and the frame will change and all want is the fill. How do I call only the fill of that box to set its opacity?
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell document 1
--something here to establish which text frame to change the settings of
tell _Box
tell transparency settings
set properties of blending settings to {blend mode:normal, opacity:60.0}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell

I think you are looking for "opacity of blending settings of fill transparency settings"?
set opacity of blending settings of fill transparency settings of selection to 60 will set it to 60% for example.
FWIW, the way I usually figure this kind of thing out is to set up an example box, put a weird value in the field I want to change (eg, 12.3) and then do a "get properties of selection" in Script Editor. Then I can search for that weird value and find out what the name of the property is that contains it. (In this case a little more complex than that, as it involved a search for transparency and then the sub-properties of the settings in the right transparency properties..)
EDIT: Originally I thought you were talking about the color tint. Fixed.

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