Setting Font Color [CS3][JS]

Hello,
I am looking for a way to set the color of a piece of text that I'm inserting on the page. I have found information about how to use a swatch color to do it, but I can't find anything about setting the color based on CMYK values without having to create a swatch first. Likely I just don't know what properties/methods I'm searching for.
I'm using insertion points to control the location of my text in the frame. My code looks like this:
r = app.activeWindow.activeSpread.groups.item('Group-1').textFrames.item('Text1');
ip = r.insertionPoints.item(0);
ip.appliedFont = 'ARIAL';
ip.fillTint = 70;
ip.tracking = +100;
//ip.colorSettings.colorSpace [CMYK] :: Process [C=100, M=0, Y=0, K=0] -- Not sure if this should be one line or two, and no clue how to write it - obviously.
//ip.fillColor = 'Blue';
ip.contents = 'This is the text that should appear process cyan based on the CMYK settings.';
So as you can see, right now I can use a swatch, but I need to loop this script over many files and I don't really want the swatch created in all those files.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave

You can't directly set the fill or stroke to an arbitrary color specification — it has to be a color, swatch, a mixed ink, a tint, or a gradient. When you apply a color using the Colors panel, in the user interface, InDesign creates a color object, even though the color object does not appear in the Swatches panel. These colors appear as unnamed colors to scripting, but they're still color objects.
To apply a color via InDesign scripting, you must use a color or swatch object.

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