Exporting Indesign book to single page PDFs

Hi,
I'm after a script that will enable me to select an entire Indesign book and export it as separate individual PDFs in one go.
I know there are a few scripts that either export the book into chapters or export the .indd files to separate single PDFs, but nothing that will do everything in one action. (i.e. take the book and output all the individual pages as single PDFs)
Has anyone written a script like this or is it easy to tweak an existing script?
BTW I have no scripting knowlege whatsoever.
Thank you again
Scott
These are the two scripts I was refering to:
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/pdf_individuals.html
http://indesignsecrets.com/page-exporter-utility-peu-5-script-updated-for-cs3.php

RichardM0701, are you the same person as scottbentley?
I fear your response doesn't make a lot of sense. The easiest way is to put your files into a book, which will not harm them. The easiest script is often no script at all.
I don't understand your comment about separate text boxes, files contain text boxes and definitionally multiple files means multiple separate text boxes.
I do not know what you are referring to with respect to the toc update, perhaps you could reference a particular command or script, or provide a screenshot.
It sounds like now you are interested in updating multiple tables of contents in a single fell swoop -- this would appear to have nothing to do with the original question. If that's the case, please start a new thread.

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