Javascript in batch sequence stopped working

The following javascript used in a batch sequence is causing Acrobat to stop working. It was working fine, this problem has happened sometime in the last 2 weeks. This has affected all of our PCs regardless of Acrobat update version. We are running Acrobat 8 (8.15, 8.17, 8.21, 8.25). The only update common to all PCs is Windows Update.
/* Extract single pages to c:/Adobe */
// Regular expression used to acquire the base name of file
var re = /\.pdf$/i;
// filename is the base name of the file Acrobat is working on
var filename = this.documentFileName.replace(re,"");
try {for (var i = 0; i < this.numPages; i++)
this.extractPages({
nStart: i,
cPath: "C:\\Adobe\\"+filename+"_" + i +".pdf"
} catch (e) { console.println("Aborted: " + e) }
Any Clues?

Thanks for the speedy response. I tried this and the problem is still there.
I did some further testing and the original script, and the new one modified to include your correction, both work if the PDF only has one page.
With more than one page Acrobat 'has stopped working'

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