Help with search and replace script please

Hi all
I've written a javascript which uses various GREP and text find/changes to copy some text from the first two paragraphs of a document and use them elsewhere (in the running head and footers) and now I want to delete the first two paragraphs. Not sure how I would do that. If I was doing a manual find/change (with nothing selected) it would automatically select the first para in the first text box but when I run teh following;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^.+$";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo="";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
it finds all paragraphs and deletes them. I was going to include the code twice; once to delete the first paragraph and then again to delete the other (new first) paragraph. My JS skills are shaky but I'm quite comfortable with GREP. Can anyone point me in the right direction for how I acheive what I want? If I did a for loop surely I'd just be doing the same thing but more than once!
Much to my surprise the rest of the script is working although it made my brain hurt!
thanks for any suggestions,
Iain

Oooh. After
myStory=app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem();
the variable "myStory" won't point to just a single story, but ... to "every story". So that's why the next line removes more than you intended!
What the "everyItem" thingy internally does is still unclear to me, but that doesn't keep me from using it -- but only when you absolutely, positively want to perform an action on every item
Now the usual examples say something like
myStory = app.activeDocument.stories.item(0); // access first story
but that's No Good. Even if your first story is the one you are targeting today, tomorrow, in a different document, it'll be story #1, or #5, or #255. There is no general rule that states the first story is always the largest one, or something like that.
If this is going to be used with a document template, the best way to identify the target story is by giving the first text frame a unique label. Otherwise, you'll have to think of something else ... A couple of other strategies:
1. You are already using GREP to find stuff. If one of those searches is guaranteed to return just text in the one story you are interested in, you can use this.
2. You mention headers and footers. If your main text is the only one that runs through multiple text frames, you can loop over all stories and check which one runs through than a single text frame.
3. ... (I'm pretty sure there are some more strategies ...)

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This kind of carries on from the previous topic i posted, but that one came to a bit of a dead end. Here is the code that i have so far:
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I think the problem lies in the part :
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Hi,
sorri for that code which sent. here's is the correct code
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import java.util.*;
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public static InputStreamReader input = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
public static BufferedReader keyboardInput = new BufferedReader(input);
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