Relink many files at once

I was wondering if anyone can help.  I'm using Illustrator CS6.  I have an artboard with 200 of the same placed file.  I now want to use this same layout for 30 other views, they are the same size, but different images.  If I relink them I have to click through each one.  I tried using a script I found on here by Carlos:
#target Illustrator
// script.name = relinkAllSelected.jsx;
// script.description = relinks all selected placed images at once;
// script.required = select at least one linked image before running;
// script.parent = CarlosCanto // 7/12/11;
// script.elegant = false;
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
sel = idoc.selection;
if (sel.length>0)
          for (i=0 ; i<sel.length ; i++ )
                   if (sel[i].typename == "PlacedItem")
                            var iplaced = sel[i];
       var file = File.openDialog ("open file " + iplaced.file );
                            iplaced.file = file;
else
          alert("select at least one placed item before running");
and I get an
error 25:  Expected: }.
Line:10
->  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times}
Any Ideas?  I'm on a mac, os x 10.6.8.  and I copied the script into the script preset folder so its starting  from the drop down menu.  Don't think I'm leaving anything out.  I'm swapping 1 placed(linked) PDF for another.
Thanks
Marcus

Dude, I tested your code and did not quite understand, I thought at the beginning that when running the script it would relink all items at one time but I had to select the items that I wanted to relink the code to open the dialog window for I specify the new file and honestly did not see an advantage because we can do this using the links window and select there the items to be changed and click the button which then rebind the advantage in this case to use a script for this?

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