Releasing Anchored objects

I saw a couple of earlier posts with code for releasing an anchored object ( http://forums.adobe.com/click.jspa?searchID=2331267&objectType=2&objectID=1109584 and http://forums.adobe.com/click.jspa?searchID=2331267&objectType=2&objectID=2062943 ) but I'm not sure how to make this work for my current situation, so would one of you folks give me a hand, please?
I'm building a directory where business names are in one paragraph style that is a numbered list, but each of these paragraphs has anchored at the the beginning a frame containing proprietor names and phone numbers in other separate paragraph styles. I need to build an alphabetical index of stores and proprietors with the index number from the list. This actually isn't too hard to organize because I can set the numbered list style to start on next page, thereby making the list number and page number the same, but I need to release all the anchored objects so they don't get pulled in as part of the store name. I figure this should be pretty simple, so how about it? CS4, if it matters.
Peter

I didn't check the posts you mentioned, but I remembered there was a catch (an anchored object is identified only by having 'anchoredObjectSettings'). The extra try..catch surrounding the 'release' ought to shield you from oddities, as in "you can't release an anchored graphic".
Other than that ... perhaps it's easier if you can select a text frame to release everything within? Or at once everything in the entire document?

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