SplitStory script seems to be broken

Question

I am typesetting a book that needs to have separately numbered footnotes for each short section; they typically end in the middle of a page, so I might have the last footnote from one section in the upper part of the page and the first of the next in the lower part.
Physically, I can get the result I want by inserting a blank 1-line split-column paragraph between the two sections, which forces the earlier note(s) to precede it. The problem is getting the numbering to start again from 1 in the new section. ID only allows section breaks at the top of a page, so I need to split the story repeatedly (potentially nearly 200 times in the whole book) whenever the section division comes in the middle of a page.
I thought the SplitStory script would do the trick, but it doesn't seem to work. Whether I have an insertion point in the text or select the frame the text is in, the script fails with the error message "AppleScript Error!    Error Number: -2741    Error String: Expected "," or "}" but found identifier    Engine: Default    File: Applications/Adobe Creative Suite CS5/Adobe InDesign CS5/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Samples/AppleScript/SplitStory.applescript".
Any advice?

Answer 1

OK, suppose you have the cursor somewhere in some text in a frame. When you run the following script, all text beyond the selected insertion point will moved to the following frame, and the link between the two frames will be broken:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
set theSel to item 1 of selection
set theOffset to index of theSel
set theStory to parent story of theSel
set theFrame to item 1 of (parent text frames of theSel)
set nextFrame to next text frame of theFrame
set next text frame of theFrame to nothing
set parent story of nextFrame to ""
move (text from character theOffset to character -1 of theStory) to after parent story of nextFrame
end tell