JS InDesign Server CS2 - Search and Replace

I am struggling to get a search and replace script to work on InDesign Server CS2.
This works on my Desktop CS2:
app.documents[0].search('xxx', false, false, 'yyy');
but not through InDesign Server CS2.
Can any one please help.
Thanks
Simon Kemp

Thanks for all of the replies.
This situation is that the company I work for has decided to consolidate some of the duties of our graphics departments. People in one location will be dummying documents for people at another location.
The paths to the images are UNC paths, which means they're pointing to different shares on different servers. This cannot be changed.
Also, the images at either location may not exist until days after the dumming process.
During the dummying process, the application that's used to build the pages places empty ad boxes (placeholders) on the page. The placeholders are text frames.
I don't understand in what way, but the paths to the images are hidden inside the InDesign file. From the users' standpoint, the placeholders simply display basic information about the ad (customer name, ad number, etc.) and hold the position for the images that will be placed later.
It is not using script labels to apply the paths.
So, this is why I describe the problem as needing to do a search and replace inside the InDesign file.
As I mentioned before, I know this is doable. I think I now see that the problem problem is figuring out how these hidden paths are being applied in the document. My only thought was script labels, but this is not the case...

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