Text Layers via Text File (ExtendScript)

It keeps saying Im posting a blank message when I paste my details in..... (grr!)
So here it is: on pastebin.... http://pastebin.com/EE7wthQ5
Ill fix it if i can....

I am totally new at this extendscript stuff, but it will be my 6th coding/scripting language if I can become profficiant in it (This is bassicly Javascript right?). ( after C++, Objective-C, AppleScript, AutoHotKey and Bash... I don't count HTML/CSS)
So this is script number zero, I need somewhere to start, and I have a project I've been working on that I can't see another way to do it, so since I'm new at this, id like you to help me write this, I honestly have no idea, not even a clue where to start (Time for 'hello world!' eh?).
Anyway, what I would like help making is a script, that will take the 50 text files I have in a folder [ D:\Code\Examples\HelloWorld\*.txt] and make them all text layers with font: Anonymous Pro, Size 8, Color 0xFFFFFF. Alighted to the top/left at 0,0. I would like the layer name to be the Text-files name before the last period (I say last because one is named Visual Basic .NET.txt)... although first wouldn't be too bad. (So lets just say, until a period)
The reason I can't do this task by hand is simple, they are all 'Hello World' Examples, they are in 49 different coding languages. Each language has a seperate text file, like Bash.txt, Ada.txt, (Extendscript.txt next? .. make it an even 50 XD)
So, little help making this? Maybe an example?
Here is what I have so far (Horrible Code... I know ):
app.documents.add()
var docRef = app.documents.add()
var artLayerRef = app.ActiveDocument.artLayers.add()
var fileArray = new Array()
fileArray[1] = "Ada"
fileArray[2] = "Assembler (gcc)"
fileArray[3] = "Assembler (nasm)"
fileArray[4] = "AutoHotKey"
fileArray[5] = "AWK"
fileArray[6] = "Bash"
fileArray[7] = "bc"
fileArray[8] = "C"
fileArray[9] = "C#"
fileArray[10] = "C++"
fileArray[11] = "C99"
fileArray[12] = "CLIPS"
fileArray[13] = "Clojure"
fileArray[14] = "COBOL"
fileArray[15] = "COBOL 85"
fileArray[16] = "D"
fileArray[17] = "Erlang"
fileArray[18] = "F#"
fileArray[19] = "Factor"
fileArray[20] = "Falcon"
fileArray[21] = "Forth"
fileArray[22] = "Fortran"
fileArray[23] = "Go"
fileArray[24] = "Groovy"
fileArray[25] = "Haskell"
fileArray[26] = "Icon"
fileArray[27] = "Java"
fileArray[28] = "JavaScript"
fileArray[29] = "List"
fileArray[30] = "Lua"
fileArray[31] = "Nemerle"
fileArray[32] = "Nice"
fileArray[33] = "Nimrod"
fileArray[34] = "Ocaml"
fileArray[35] = "Oz"
fileArray[36] = "Pascal"
fileArray[37] = "Perl"
fileArray[38] = "PHP"
fileArray[39] = "Pike"
fileArray[40] = "Prolog (gnu)"
fileArray[41] = "Prolog (swi)"
fileArray[42] = "Python"
fileArray[43] = "Python 3"
fileArray[44] = "Ruby"
fileArray[45] = "Scala"
fileArray[46] = "Scheme (guile)"
fileArray[47] = "Smalltalk"
fileArray[48] = "Tcl"
fileArray[49] = "Visual Basic"
var countDown = 49
for ( count = 1; count > countDown; count++)
app.ActiveDocument.artLayers.add()
currentName = fileArray[count]
artLayerRef.name = currentName
artLayerRed.blendMode = BlendMode.NORMAL
artLayerRef.kind = LayerKind.TEXT
var currentContents = "D:\Code\Examples" + currentName + ".txt"
docRef.artLayers[currentName].textItem.contents = currentContents
Yea I know its probably all wrong... thats why I need help.

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Thanks!
Steve

DrStrik9, I opened up the file, clicked on each text layer and selected all to make sure there wasn't any character using a different font. There wasn't. I clicked on the font being used, tried changing it to a different font, then back to the font that was being used. I saved and closed the file, then reopened it, and that seemed to cure it for that file. Not an efficient way to go about it though.
I then tried another file that was giving me the same error, clicked on each text layer, changed the font to a different one, then back to what was being used, saved, closed and reopened it, and still got the same message. So it didn't work for that one. I then tried changing the font to a system font, Times Bold true type, saved, closed, reopened, and got the message again. So not sure what is going on. The fonts used in the first file were DIN and DINEngschrift postscript font, which were loaded and active in Font Fusion.
The 2nd file I tried was using Gotham Bold postscript font, which also was active in Font Fusion. I've run Font Doctor on the fonts and found no issues.
Even though I'm getting the error message when I'm opening these files, none of the text layers have that Exclamation point indicating there is an issue with the layer, so it would seem the text layers are fine. Just really annoying to get that error every time I open the file.
Another thing I tried is I created a new Photoshop file and just made some text layers using Gotham Bold. Saved, closed and reopened the file and did not get the message. So, I don't know why I would get it with one file and not another. Very confusing/frustrating. Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Steve

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