Find Font dialog

Hi,
I ve written a program to convert specified fonts in the document to another font, this runs for a batch of illustrator files... The program finds out the fonts used in each textframe and then does the processing. This takes a lot of time.
I need to know whether it is possible to access the FindFont dialog through script(VB or JS)????
(i.e.) Type->FindFont in the illustrator application
Is this possible?
Someone pls guide me...
Thank You...

I realise this is an old thread but recently experienced this problem and found a solution that worked for me.
MacBook Pro
OS X 10.8.2
Illustrator CS6
FYI, my case is slightly different from the OP's: Illustrator was exhibiting this behaviour with only one of my files so I guessed that the problem might be with that specific file. The Find Font dialog box would appear every time the file was opened, even though it showed that all the necessary fonts were present. I didn't have admin rights for that machine and couldn't delete any preference files. So, I tried creating a new .ai file, copying everything over and saving it with a new name. No more dialog box after that.
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I'm having a problem, I have a script that opens two files and exchange documents between them.
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