Changing Object Style

I have a script that adds a stroke around the piece, that is a spot color called Dieline. It works great except if the supplied file has a Object Style defined. The box it creates has that style applied to it. I would like to change the Object style to "None" but am having troubles figuring out how to accomlish this.
Any help would be greatly appriecatated.
//Script to create dieline at page size
main();
function main(){
    var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
    var myDielineColor = getOrAddColor(myDocument, "Dieline", ColorModel.spot, [100, 0, 0, 0])
    var myNoneSwatch = myDocument.swatches.itemByName("None");
    createLayer(myDocument, "Dieline");
    for (x=0;  x < app.activeDocument.pages.length ; x++) {
        myPage = app.activeDocument.pages[x]
        var myCoord = myPage.bounds;
        //Create the rectangle and move it to the Dieline layer
        var myRect = myPage.rectangles.add({fillColor:myNoneSwatch, strokeColor:myDielineColor, geometricBounds:(myCoord)});
        myRect.itemLayer = myDocument.layers.itemByName("Dieline");
function createLayer(myDocument, myLayer){
     if(!myDocument.layers.item(myLayer).isValid){
         myDocument.layers.add({name:myLayer})
         .move(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING)
function getOrAddColor(myDocument, myColorName, myColorModel, myColorValue){
          if(!myDocument.colors.item(myColorName).isValid){
        var myColor = myDocument.colors.add();
        myColor.name = myColorName;
        myColor.model = myColorModel;
        myColor.colorValue = myColorValue;
     else {
        var myColor = myDocument.colors.itemByName(myColorName);
    return myColor

Hi,
Do it in two separate steps:
1. apply objectStyle "None"
2. apply your properties
so inside your loop:
var myRect = myPage.rectangles.add( { appliedObjectStyle: myDocument.objectStyles.item(0) } );
myRect.properties = {
     fillColor:myNoneSwatch,
     strokeColor:myDielineColor,
     geometricBounds: myCoord
myRect.itemLayer = myDocument.layers.itemByName("Dieline");
Jarek

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