Need a script that will put photo on white background

I am currently using CS3 Photoshop on a MacPro Intel
I have about 31,000 photos that I need to take the background out of. Most of the photos were not shot against white, black or green screens. These are mostly images of plumbing products. The majority of these images do have clipping paths. I am currently having to manually select the path, make selection, select inverse, cut the selection, save, close. I have tried to create a script to do this, but haven’t been successful in doing so yet. I have been able to create basic scripts in the past without issues, but this one has me stumped. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

As long as the files do have clipping paths this should get you started. It applies the clipping path as a vector mask. All you should have to add is the save and close part. If you need help with that let me know what format you want to save and the save options.
// apply clipping path as vector mask
var clipPathIndex = clippingPathIndex();
if( clipPathIndex != -1 ){
     activeDocument.layers[ activeDocument.layers.length -1 ].name = 'Converted Background';// rename bottom layer incase isBackground
     activeDocument.pathItems[ clipPathIndex ].select();
     createVectorMask();
     activeDocument.pathItems[ clipPathIndex ].deselect();
     // or
     //activeDocument.pathItems[ clipPathIndex ].remove();
// Function: clippingPathIndex
// Description: Gets the index of the activeDocument's clipping path
// Usage: clippingPathIndex()
// Input: None
// Return: Index as Integer. -1 if there is no clipping path
function clippingPathIndex(){
     var ref = new ActionReference();
          ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Dcmn"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet( ref );
     var clippingPath = desc.getObjectValue(charIDToTypeID("Clpg"));
     return clippingPath.getInteger(charIDToTypeID("ClpI" ));
// Function: createVectorMask
// Description: Make vector mask from active path
// Usage: createVectorMask();
// Input: None
// Return: -1 if failed
function createVectorMask() {
try{
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putClass( charIDToTypeID('Path') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        var mask = new ActionReference();
        mask.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Path'), charIDToTypeID('Path'), stringIDToTypeID('vectorMask') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('At '), mask );
        var path = new ActionReference();
        path.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Path'), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('Usng'), path );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Mk '), desc, DialogModes.NO );
}catch(e){ return -1; }

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If you are querying by user "resultset size" will be of no use.
You also have functions that are never used and the body code doe snot look for users.
Here is what you scrip looks like if printed well. It is just a jumble of pasted together and unrelated items.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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