Fireworks Scripting: Persistent CustomData in Docs

I've been working on a custom template and some scripts that
solve a production problem for my workgroup. In a nutshell it
involves tagging objects (paths and text) according to their
function in the interface, and being able to change their
appearance from full preview to wireframe (black outlines and some
gray) and back again. The tags function somewhat like stylesheets,
except in this case the stylesheet has two 'modes', mockup and
wireframe, and several 'states', active inactive, selected, etc..
To record the tags, I write to the customData property of the
objects. But I think I would also like to record all the style
definitions somewhere in the files themselves, rather than having
to include the 300+ lines of code in every script. Is there
something like a customData property for documents? I don't see
anything like it in the documentation ("Extending Fireworks").
I suppose I could create a path on its own layer, call the
layer "data", lock it and make it invisible. Then I could write the
style definitions to the customData property of the path, but I was
hoping there was a more elegant alternative that would be
transparent to the user.
Anybody have any ideas?

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