Import swatches, styles, symbols, character styles with applescript

I've done plenty of Illustrator scripting with applescript, but can't seem to find a way of automating import of swatches, styles, symbols, and/or character styles from existing file. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Oh sorry forgot to tell you what I usually do with this. To get around it, I usually create an empty document with all the library of a document category on it and save that document to a server. If anyone want to create a document of that type I would just tell them to grab that file from the server to their local computer. It won't work if you are editing existing document UNLESS, you don't want the library saved only to the old document. In that case you can just copy every thing on the old document with script and paste it on the pre-made document that have all the library on it.
Sounds pretty low tech, but it gets it done.
ZW

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activate
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set y to height / 2
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