CS4: exporting text

For CS3 I had a script that exported text from frames I'd put a scriptlabel on. The default CS4 text export function nor the text export sample script that comes with CS4 don't do the trick. Does anyone know if there is a similar script for CS4 available somewhere? Or maybe someone knows how to alter this one? I get an error with the file path...
set allText to {}
set oldTids to AppleScript's text item delimiters
on changetid(x)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to x
end changetid
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
my changetid("")
set filePath to file path of document 1
set docname to (name of front document & ".txt")
try
tell application "Finder"
make new file at filePath with properties {name:docname}
end tell
end try
set newName to (filePath & docname) as string as alias
set theNumber to (text returned of (display dialog "How many stories do you want to export" default answer "3"))
set theNumber to theNumber as integer
repeat with ii from 1 to theNumber
set y to (parent story of every text frame of document 1 whose label is ii as string)
set x to (get text of y)
set end of allText to (x & return & return)
end repeat
set allText to every item of allText as text
set writeOut to open for access newName with write permission
write allText to writeOut
close access writeOut
my changetid(oldTids)
end tell

Aaaaaaah, I already figured out what went wrong... I had opened CS3 documents and tried to export the text before I had saved the documents as CS4... As soon as I saved them as CS4, I could export the text...

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