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I can answer "b" at least. We have people who want to specifically kern type by pairs for a whole document. Once they get a pair such as "tt" kerned exactly the way they like, they want any other instances of "tt" to be kerned the same way. Shane was a great help (as always,) and I've expanded it a bit, but I'm stuck with a coersion problem right now.

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 

  set x to item 1 of selection

  set kerningValue to kerning value of x

  	set theIndex to index of x

  	set charContents to characters (theIndex - 1) thru theIndex of parent story
  of x

  	set charFontStyle to font style of x

  	set CharFontSize to point size of x

  	set charFont to applied font of x

  	set find preferences to nothing

  	set change preferences to nothing

  	search document 1 for charContents with find attributes {applied font:charFont,
  point size:CharFontSize, font style:charFontStyle}

  	set myResult to result

  	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","

  	repeat with a in myResult

    		--iterate through all matching pairs, and change kerning only on the second
    character in charContents

    		--kerning is only applied to second character, not pairs

    		set myChar to a as list

    		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space

    		--having coersion problems here

    		set myChar to item 7 of myChar

    		set properties of myChar of parentProps to {kerning value:kerningValue}

  	end repeat

end tell