Need Help With Script Skipping Word Before Variable

Question

I borrowed and modified a skip I found here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4808804 with code borrowed from elsewhere.
I noticed that it seems to run fine, but it skips any word that appears right before a variable. The point of the script is to find any text using an italic override or bold override, and replace the override with the appropriate character format from the catalog.
Can someone tell me why the code below skips words before a variable? I am sure it is a simple thing, but I am teaching myself Extendscript, and only recently started the attempt/
Thanks,
Marc
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
removeOverrides (doc)
function removeOverrides (pDoc)
    var vDocStart = pDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;
    var vBoldFmt=pDoc.GetNamedCharFmt ('bold')
    var vItalicFmt=pDoc.GetNamedCharFmt ('italic')
    initFA_errno ();
    var vTextLoc = new TextLoc(vDocStart,0);
    var vFindParams=findOverrideParams (pDoc);
    while (FA_errno==Constants.FE_Success)
        var vTextRange=pDoc.Find(vTextLoc,vFindParams);
        if (vTextRange.beg.obj.ObjectValid())
            var vTextItems=pDoc.GetTextForRange (vTextRange, Constants.FTI_CharPropsChange)
            if (vTextItems.length==!0 )
                $.writeln(vTextItems.String)
                if (vTextItems[0].idata==Constants.FTF_WEIGHT)
                   pDoc.SetTextProps (vTextRange, vBoldFmt.GetProps())
                if (vTextItems[0].idata==Constants.FTF_ANGLE)
                   pDoc.SetTextProps (vTextRange, vItalicFmt.GetProps())
                }// else (Log (vLogFileName, '\nERROR: No items were found in the text format array but format override was found: '+pDoc.Name))
        vTextLoc = vTextRange.end
        vDocStart=vDocStart.NextPgfInFlow;
function findOverrideParams (pDoc)
    var vFindParams = AllocatePropVals(1);
    vFindParams[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindObject;
    vFindParams[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer;
    vFindParams[0].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_FindCharacterFormatOverride;
   return vFindParams;
  function initFA_errno()
         app.GetNamedMenu("!MakerMainMenu"); //If this fails, you've got bigger problems
         return;

Answer 1

It looks like home assignment. Home assignment are not very welcome here. I can help you only a little. It's very simple application, but if you dont know basics in OO, you are in trouble.
Create these three files, even empty with all points you need to accomplish in them as comments.
Think about gui you need. If you do not know how to make menus and other fancy gui you can do only with one main panel with a few buttons and JOptionPanes appearing for every input.
Buttons for each task:
1. get available rooms; press and see JOptionPane telling what rooms are empty (information message)
2. book: JOptionPane asking how many guests, you input, it checks for availability, if available rooms are not enough (or beds) another OP tells that it's impossible, if enough - offer to input room number, you input, check if the room is booked, then offer to input name, then offer quit.
3. unbook.
4.get report
Once you design how it looks, every step becomes very simple. All methods you need to implement are simple array manipulations. Make report last, because it's just collection of printouts from methods you've already done.
In book, you need to look for definitions of constructor, passing arguments to methods, returning results from methods, creating object with "new" operator, simple event handling, JOptionPane documentation and examples, which are in every decent textbook.
Do not panic, it's really simple but rather tiresome application, if you do it by yourself you learn almost everything necessary to start programming in java.