Importing .tif files in indesign CS2

Hi all!!
If there are 200-300 pages in Indesign and if I wanted to import the pages in .tif extension to Indesign,I am currently using the Adobe's ImageCatalog.jsx script.But I have all the pages in the server foler i.e the 'W drive is the server drive and it does not show up in the dialog box when the script is run using ExtendScript toolkit. Can anyone help in changing the code below to add the server drive in the dialog box so that I can access all the pages in that drive.I would be grateful if anyone could help me in fixing this.
Thank You
Krishna
Here's the ImageCatalog.jsx script for CS2:
Olav Kvern, "Importing .tif extension files to IndesignCS2" #6, 19 Jul 2007 11:24 am

Please see above for what I have selected from the media panel.
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This is the instructions that I have been following http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/dynamic-pdf-documents.html#create_interactive_docume nts_for_pdf
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"Buttons And Media
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I cannot seem to find this menu, the only one I can find is Buttons & Forms and when I open this all of the options are graded out. Please see the screen grab below...

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