Bridge to InDesign contact sheets (CS3) creating frames around the images

Forgive me if this topic should not be here.
We use the contact sheets to ID from Bridge script quite a lot at work (when it works -> CS2). Since upgrading to CS3 it works (hooray) however, it creates two boxes with a black stroke around each image. Removing them manually is a schlep (I was reading this forum in the hopes of finding a script to run that will remove them faster).
Is there a way I could edit the script to stop it creating the boxes in the first place?
Does anyone else have this problem?

Hi Bob,
we found your script (I think it was yours) but it only removes one of the boxes I think.
Hi Robert,
We are mostly working on Macs, but scripting directly in ID would be great.
Thanks!

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