Remove Unused swatchs, brushes,symbols

Hi all,
I want to be remove unused swatches, brushes, and symbols in my Illustrator document by using of javascript. Any one give a scripting for the above solution.
Is there any properties are changed in CS3 to compare with the Illustrator CS2 javascript.
Any Ideas for my Question. Kindly reply to me.
Thanks,
Nagaraj
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#target indesign
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Hi Friends
Use this script it will help ful.
# target "Deleting unused swatches change the gradient"
var myIndesignDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myUnusedSwatches = myIndesignDoc.unusedSwatches;
for (var s = myUnusedSwatches.length-1; s >= 0; s--) {
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