Setting default paragraph style (InDesign CS4, AppleScript)

I'm trying to set the default paragraph style to [Basic Paragraph], but this produces an error.
Setting other styles does work, what's wrong with "[Basic Paragraph]"?
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
tell active document
tell text defaults
set applied paragraph style to "[Basic Paragraph]"
end tell
end tell
end tell
Thanks,
Peter

Alternatively you could use:
set applied character style of text defaults to character style 1
set applied paragraph style of text defaults to paragraph style 1
Cheers
Tobias

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