[JS][CS35.5]Place a previously created item/textframe/group onto a page/into a textframe anchored

Question

Hi all. I'm an experienced programmer but very new to indesign scriping.  I've been working through a book and some tutorials and it's coming along pretty well.  I'm also no Javascript pro.
My project is to parse some inDesign files that I have made as "templates" and fill in placeholder text I have created with data from a file.  The data can be single words or phrases or long sequences of styled paragraphs.  That's all working.  I can even do it without making the document active which is especially pleasing because it feels more automated not to have the new document open while the script is running.
However, now I want to do something I did with my previous system (OpenOffice Writer + Docmosis) which is to place a little group of a textbox + icon with a drop shadow in certain parts of my document.
Here is an idea of what I mean: http://fireplan.ca/images/stories/firewatch.png
Since I add large amounts of text and add pages manually to flow it I need to make sure this box will stay with the text it is associated with (in this case, the fire watch paragraph).  I don't know if there is a good way to copy this element in from another document or to create it with a script or what.  My solution so far has been lame.  I create the textFrame, include subframes and graphics as I see fit, and then put it in the document with a name (InfoBox) and set it to be invisible.  Then, if I run across a situation where I want to include it, I do something like:
var sourceTextFrame=findTextFrame("InfoBox",theDoc);
var objectDupe=sourceTextFrame.duplicate();
objectDupe.visible=true;
objectDupe.name=objectDupe.name+"-placed";
app.select(objectDupe);
app.cut();
app.select(theStory.paragraphs[newParagraphIndex].insertionPoints[0]);
app.paste();
/* This code an be optimized and improved I'm sure but for now it's doing the job and is not the basis of my question */    
function findTextFrame(frameName,theDoc){
            var allItems=theDoc.allPageItems;
            for(var a=0;a<allItems.length;a++){
              if(allItems[a].name==frameName){
               return allItems[a];
            return null;
Basically I paste a visible copy of the info box into my main textframe in the appropriate place.  This technique of using app.select, app.cut, and app.paste just seems lame. It also means I have to make the document the active document so I can use cut and paste.
Any suggestions or ideas about how to achieve this sort of thing more cleanly?

Answer 1

Just a quick follow up.  The direction I thought I would go on this if I was more experienced would be to look at the Indesign CS5.5 scripting guide and focus on the area about creating an anchored frame.  This basically creates a text frame inside an existing frame and anchors it there.  It seems like there should be some way to use a similar approach to move the contents of my existing objectDupe into this anchored frame, or simply add the objectDupe instead of creating the anchored frame in the first place.
So for example the code in the scripting guide is something like:
var myInlineFrame = myInsertionPoint.textFrames.add();
I thought it would be nice if you could do something like myInsertionPoint.textFrames.add(objectDupe);
or objectDupe.moveTo(myInsertionPoint);
var myInlineFrame = myInsertionPoint.textFrames.add();
myInlineFrame.textFrames=objectDupe.textFrames;
or
myInlineFrame.contents=objectDupe.contents;
Of course, I realize none of these things will work, but it just seems like there should be a way!?
Perhaps I will have to look further into snippets.  I saw a blog post that allows you to place snippets inline by putting them in a library first.. maybe that'll work.
Any further comments are more than welcome!