Scripts disappearing from Illustrator 3 action palette

I'm starting to write some javascripts for Illustrator 3, Version 13.0.0.0. (It's part of CS3, if I understand right). I'm then turning the script into an action so I can assign a hotkey to it and because I wanted to deselect everything after the script runs, but the textFrame I changed selects itself after the script finishes. Once I close illustrator and reopen it, the parts of the Actions that were scripts are gone, the rest is there. If I save and load the actions, I get 'Some event has not been registered for action' errors, and the actions load without the scripts present.
How can I keep the scripts from disappearing or easily replace them?
If you feel up to it, how can I keep textFrames from selecting themselves after the script finishes running if I change their .contents, and is there a non-action way to hotkey a javascript?

Scripts can't be inseted into actions permanently.
On WIndows try and use system tools to assign shortcuts to scripts. Onthe Mac OS use Software like Spark.

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