Tagging TextFrames With InDesign Server - not showign in desktop?

Hi all,
Ive come across a weird issue with marking up text frames with InDesign Server (CS3) whilst processing xml rules during an xml import.
I run the following code on desktop it works fine. When run on server, it works apart from the frames will not highlight when "Show Tagged Frames" is selected.
(code cut for brevity)..
//..open a new doc, import the xml file, process the rule set.
function AddTextFrame(element)
this.name = "AddTextFrame";
this.xpath = "//textFrame";
this.apply = function(element, myRuleProcessor)
with(element)
var frame = page.textFrames.add();
//...frame geometry code goes here...
markup(frame);
As Ive stated, the code is functionally fine on desktop and server, but the tagged frames will not highlight when the document is created on server?
Ive tried numerous work arounds (placeIntoFrame etc) but to no avail.
Any ideas, is this a known/expected behaviour?
Cheers, Scott

After much local experimentation and iteration with Adobe tech support, we have a fix for Problem nr. 1: cannot define the port that works in our environment (IDS CS4 running as a service, Windows 2008 Server).
Add this parameter to your server startup command line for each instance of InDesign Server you're running:
-ORBendPoint giop:tcp:<serverIP>:<portNumber>
where
<serverIP> is the static IP of the server that is running IDS. Note: The OmniOrb docs imply that you can use the server's domain name here, but that didn't work for us. 127.0.0.1 also did not work. The IP number does work. This might help your Problem nr. 2: wrong IP address in the application IOR if you set it to the IP you want to listen on, but we have no experience with that.
<portNumber> is the port you want IDS (via OmniOrb) to listen on. If you're running multiple instances as we are, each instance should have its own unique port number.
I completely agree that, as an enterprise product, IDS's default behavior of boldly going where no one has gone before in your port space at each restart is not the way to play nice in a firewalled, enterprise environment. This should be documented in Adobe's Introduction to InDesign Server in the command line parameter discussions, it would have saved us a lot of time

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