Copy iTunes file path to Comments field?

Since there is no built in way to display the file path of files in your iTunes library, can you copy the file paths to the "Comments" field?
Teridon wrote an awesome script that will copy them into the "Description" field, however, this overwrites what you have in that field and is not desirable especially for podcasts.
I attempted to adapt his vbs to write to track.Comments, but "Comments" is not a valid object?
Any ideas?

I haven't tested it, but I think if you use "track.Comment" instead of track.Description it will work. i.e. change this line:
track.Description = FileList
to this:
track.Comment = FileList
Of course, this will overwrite any existing Comment field.
Oh, and the entire script (for putting the file path in the description) is here:
http://www.pobox.com/~teridon/itunesscripts/itunespathdescription.vbs

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