[JS CS3] disappearing page items

Now this is strange: I've written a script that does some imposition of a an image on a single sheet (page) and puts some special printers marks along the side. Now there's (as far as i am aware of) one instance where all the page items get placed on the page, but when you save, close and reopen the document, half of them are gone!
When you drag the page items before saving they disappear right from under your cursor! I've tried putting a lot of save commands during the script, hoping that that would nail those items down, but with no luck.
Has anybody had a similar experience and found a solution?
Thanks,
james

Hi,
You should send your script then we could have a try on our side.
Loic

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