Floating Objects a la Framemaker (CS4ME Win7bit64)

Hello,
I'm working on a book with hundreds of anchored objects that are pictures of varying sizes.
In Framemaker and LaTex there is a feature called "floating objects." This will take your anchored objects and place them in the nearest vacant top-of-page slot available. Meanwhile, the regular main text continues flowing where the anchored object was, eliminating ugly white gaps.
Since this feature does not exist in InDesign, what do people do in such cases?
The manual workaround is to turn the graphics into regular objects (not anchored objects), and paste them where necessary. This is going to be very tedious, and extremely inflexible if there are any late edits.
Are there any clever workarounds in InDesign? Or scripts or plugins that help in such a situation?
Thanks for any tips,
Ariel

Any tips and suggestions would be welcome! We're talking a book full of pictures (1 or 2 a page). The pictures should ideally sit at the top of the pages, as near as possible to their first reference in the main text. I'm trying to keep things as flexible as possible, so that the inevitable future edits will not entail manually repositioning each graphic.
Thoughts, tips, suggestions, scripts & plugins all welcome!
Thanks,
Ariel
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