Export indd file to Snippets [VBS]

Hello all i'm trying to modify an existing script that Exports indd files to pdf's. it goes through all the indd file and createsa pdf one page at a time and workds fine. However in converting it to do the same but convert to Snippet files i'm having problems with the "idExportFormat.idInDesignSnippet" class and memebers when i try somthing like
myFilePath = myFolderName & "\" & myPageName & "_" & myBaseName & ".inds"
myDocument.Export idExportFormat.idInDesignSnippet, myFilePath, False
I get an "The Specified object to does support the desired export format." error # 25398
if i remove the ",myflePath, False" then i get a "Missing required parameter 'To' for export event".
The really anying this is if i change that to a
myFilePath = myFolderName & "\" & myPageName & "_" & myBaseName & ".xml"
myDocument.Export idExportFormat.idXML, myFilePath, False
it works fine..
So there is somthing missing for the snippet export.

I've broken the problem down and started as small as possible.
To do the same thing but to export each page as a jpg's i can use the following script
Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.CS3")
myFile = "c:\myTestFile.jpg"
myInDesign.ActiveDocument.Export idExportFormat.idJpg, myFile, False
If i change that round a abit to customize it to export as inds snippets i would get
Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.CS3")
myFile = "c:\myTestFile.inds"
myInDesign.ActiveDocument.Export idExportFormat.idInDesignSnippet, myFile, False
This produces the following error " The specified object does not support the desired export format" - Line 3
This is because the object i am speifiying is "ActiveDocument" which when selected (manually) cannot be exported as a Snippet.
What I need to do is cycle trough my pages selecting Texframes of which they are multiple on each page and export them as Snippets.
Can anyone help please?

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