Delete and substitute another paragraph styles...

Hi everyone,
We need script for delete unwanted paragraph styles & character styles in InDesignCS2. While deleting also want to replace some styles for it. So can anyone help me for this. Thanks.
Thiyagu

I found this script hoping it would help me out. We recently updated the template to one of our books so the paragraph & character style names line up with other projects. I added two lines to the script in the format shown and ran the script and it worked. "Great!" I thought. But when I made a comprehensive list (the script is 47 lines long), it suddenly gives me error messages and won't even get through one line of the script! I have confirmed that both the old and new style names are present in the document and match exactly. Can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong? I've attached the warning message and a few lines of the script. I am working in CS4. Thanks,
Matt
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Body - Recipe Head").remove("STORY HEAD");
myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Body - Recipe Head 2 line").remove("STORY HEAD 2LINE");
myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Body-Recipe Head 3 lines").remove("STORY HEAD 3LINE");
myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Body - Indent").remove("STORY BODY");
(continues this pattern for other styles)

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