Filling in an InDesign Template with Applescript

I also posted this in an InDesign scripting forum, but I thought I'd see if anyone here had any ideas.
I'm working on a script to fill in an InDesign template I've created. The template consists of 8 text frames, each with a logo placed as an in-line graphic. What I need the script to do is to add text it has gathered after the in lines after the logos. The text frames will all be identical, so I've been trying variations of:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell active document
tell active page
tell every text frame
set paragraph 2 to label_info
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
It seems like the problem is in getting InDesign to even recognize the text frames so I can work with them. Eventually, I will also need to set paragraph styles and export a PDF of the document, but I'm just trying to figure this out one step at a time for now.

I got it to work.

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end tell
When you run this small part of my Applescript, InDesign opens the Export Adobe PDF window (as expected) waiting for me to click on "Export". That is exactly what I want, since the user is given here a last opportunity to change some values (for example page range, or spreads). When all is set, the user can click on Export to close the dialog and finish the script.
Problem: I was hoping that the Adobe PDF Preset "somePreset" would be selected in the first pull-down menu of the Export Adobe PDF window when this window is opened by the script. Unfortunately the last used preset is always selected by default. Anyone suggestions or help?
Kind regards,
Bertus Bolknak.

My operators enter the page range and filename into a dialog box. Then I set those in the script. I use the Press Quality preset to start with and then set the changes I want into a export variable. I set things like bleed, marks, page range, etc.
Here is an example:
set theProps to properties of PDF export preset "[Press Quality]"
try
delete PDF export preset "Schmidt PDF"
end try
set theStyle to {name:"Schmidt PDF", acrobat compatibility:acrobat 7, bleed top:"0.125i", bleed bottom:"0.125i", bleed inside:"0.125i", bleed outside:"0.125i", page marks offset:"0.125i", include ICC profiles:Include None, effective PDF destination profile:use no profile, effective PDF X profile:"No Color Conversion"} & theProps
make PDF export preset with properties theStyle
set properties of PDF export preferences to theStyle
set color bitmap sampling of PDF export preferences to none
set grayscale bitmap sampling of PDF export preferences to none
set page range of PDF export preferences to (item i of myPageList) as string
export document 1 format PDF type to (PrinergyFolder & myJobNumFinal & "_" & VerCode & ".pdf") as Unicode text without showing options
I am also doing this in Quark.

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