Applying [None] character style

I have a script that finds text with a certain character style, cuts that text from the main story and anchors it in a frame that sits in the margin.
Everything works fine except that I'd like to have the option of removing the character style. However, when I apply the [None] character style InD shows [None] in the character style lists but the formatting for the character style that was just removed remains on the text.
Is there a way to have it work as if the [None] was manually selected from the character style list? i.e.: where the character style formatting is removed as well?
Thanks,
Ken

Hello!
I'm trying to start understanding this javascript thing... Does anyone know how I can modify this so it will also have the option of removing all the character styles in all the text frames, or all the stories in the document? I have several documents with 10 stories each that will need to have the character styles removed before we continue formatting.
I took a swing at it myself, but haven't been able to get it to work. I really don't know much about scripting! Here's what I tried:
if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit("Please open a document and try again.");
var gScriptName = "Apply character style None keeping overrides";
var gScriptVersion = "1.0";
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var sel = doc.selection[0];
var all = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem()
if (doc.selection.length != 1) ErrorExit("One text frame or some text should be selected, or the cursor should be inserted into the text.");
if (sel.constructor.name == "TextFrame") { // a text frame is selected
     ApplyNone(sel.texts[0]);
else if (sel.constructor.name == "Character" || // some text is selected
     sel.constructor.name == "Word" ||
     sel.constructor.name == "TextStyleRange" ||
     sel.constructor.name == "Line" ||
     sel.constructor.name == "Paragraph" ||
     sel.constructor.name == "TextColumn" ||
     sel.constructor.name == "Text")
          ApplyNone(sel);
else {
     ApplyNone(all);
//===================================== FUNCTIONS ======================================
function ApplyNone(sel) {
     var noneStyle = doc.characterStyles.item("[None]");
     var basedOnNone = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add({name:"None", basedOn:noneStyle});
     sel.applyCharacterStyle(basedOnNone);
     basedOnNone.remove(noneStyle);
function ErrorExit(error, icon) {
     alert(error, gScriptName + " - " + gScriptVersion, icon);
     exit();
I also tried this, but to no avail.
ar gScriptName = "Apply character style None keeping overrides";
var gScriptVersion = "1.0";
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var sel = doc.selection[0];
var all = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem()
ApplyNone(all);
//===================================== FUNCTIONS ======================================
function ApplyNone(sel) {
     var noneStyle = doc.characterStyles.item("[None]");
     var basedOnNone = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add({name:"None", basedOn:noneStyle});
     all.applyCharacterStyle(basedOnNone);
     basedOnNone.remove(noneStyle);
function ErrorExit(error, icon) {
     alert(error, gScriptName + " - " + gScriptVersion, icon);
     exit();
Any thoughts? I'm thinking that app.documents[0].stories.everyItem() probably isn't right...
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