Script is not working in CS4

Hi all
I have a Apple script for applying character styles although is working fine in CS2. But when we running this script in CS4 is not working.
If you have any solutions. Plese let me now.
Thanks in Advance
Pramod Pant
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
set «class pFnd» to nothing
set «class pChg» to nothing
tell active document
-- Change Body Characterstyles
set myCharacterStyle to character style "Body text bold [city-guide]"
«event K2 Find» given «class wFnd»:{applied font:"Bembo Std", font style:"Bold"}, «class wChg»:{applied character style:"Body text bold [city-guide]"}
set myCharacterStyle to character style "Body text italic [city-guide]"
«event K2 Find» given «class wFnd»:{applied font:"Bembo Std", font style:"Italic"}, «class wChg»:{applied character style:"Body text italic [city-guide]"}
set myCharacterStyle to character style "Body text FEWT [city-guide]"
«event K2 Find» given «class wFnd»:{applied font:"Rough Guides ", font style:"Medium"}, «class wChg»:{applied character style:"Body text FEWT [city-guide]"}
end tell
set «class pFnd» to nothing
set «class pChg» to nothing
end tell

Have you tried searching the forum? There have been several questions regarding this.
Searching has changed between CS2 and CS4.
Try putting the script in folder: Applications/Adobe InDesign/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Version 4.0 Scripts

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I have a few suggestions for you -- not that you asked, but hey it is a free forum with volunteers, so you get what you get!
First if you really don't know AS2 all that well, but you want to get into coding I would suggest starting with AS3. It is the future and if you have to learn new stuff it might as well be the newest, new stuff. AS3 is the future of Actionscript and Flash. It is a little more complex in some respects, but in many others it isn't that much more difficult and it really helps if you haven't learned all kinds of "bad" ideas from how AS2 was....
Next, if you decide to stick with AS2, I would suggest learning the latest ways of doing stuff in AS2. Using the on(event) type of coding is really old and it won't serve you well if you want to advance very far with your coding.Here is a great article on the transition to the newer style and why it is a good idea:
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/museum-pieces-on-and-onclipevent
After that, consider ditching buttons all together. They are really twitchy and strange and most people I know gave them up when movieclips could have button events attached to them.
Finally on the issue of Scenes, they are a great way for timeline animators to organize their content. And they are great when everything is just played back to back. In fact that is what happens to scenes, when you publish the timelines are strung together in sequence and then the "scenes" are deleted. The whole thing becomes just one big long timeline. The problems come in when you start using code to move the playhead around. The documentation seems pretty straight forward and it should work, but there are just several little tricky things where it doesn't work. Sounds can cause problems too. So if you plan to use code I always recommend that you use movieclips to organize your "scenes" and not the actual scenes....

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