Older equivalent of "AICS2-VBScriptGuide.pdf" for Illustrator 10?

(I asked this question a couple of days ago in the Illustrator Scripting forum but didn't connect with anyone there who could help. It's a question that fits both fora.)
It has fallen on me to update a departed developer's C++ code for Windows that uses the Visual Basic type library within the Illustrator 10 "ScriptingSupport.aip" plugin. I can see how to make calls from C++ to get Illustrator 10 to draw some graphs from dynamic data.
But the scripting syntax used by this existing C++ code, which works well in Illustrator 10, doesn't seem to work at all in Illustrator CS2. Certain functions present in the Illustrator 10 "ScriptingSupport.aip" type library seem to be entirely missing in the CS2 version of the same plug-in.
I can't find any documentation of the older "ScriptingSupport.aip" syntax to compare what the existing code is trying to do against the techniques I might use with CS2's syntax (for which I had no trouble finding documentattion, in the file "AICS2-VBScriptGuide.pdf").
Alas, the Illustrator Developer Center link for "Download archived Illustrator SDKs" takes me nowhere different than the page on which I selected it, and I've not found any relevant older information by searching the archives.
Can anyone help me find the older documentation?
Thanks,
Glenn Picher
Dirigo Multimedia, Inc.
[email protected]

Following up for the record, the older equivalent of "AICS2-VBScriptGuide.pdf" for Illustrator 10 can be found on the Illustrator 10 product CD in "Illustrator Extras/Scripting/Documentation/Illustrator Scripting Guide.pdf" . In the same folder is a document with some VIsual Basic fixes, "Scripting Guide Errata.pdf". Thanks to those who helped me find this!

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