Illustrator Scripting :: Finishing Up With Compound Paths

I'm a novice here so here's my script. It works really well like it sits. It basically takes two objects in a large group and aligns them. I want to make each two objects combined into a single compound path. I have tried multiple things and they all just kick out errors and what not. I can't seem to get my head around the vocabulary for the scripting but the darkness is starting to fade the more I do.
 
#target Illustrator
          var idoc = app.activeDocument;
          var pi =idoc.compoundPathItems;
          var numn = prompt ("How Many Names?", "Enter Number of Names");
          var dd = prompt ("How far below name is the number?", "Enter Drop Distance");
          var nH = prompt ("How tall are the names?", "Enter Name Height in Inches");
          dd = parseFloat (dd);
          numn = parseInt (numn);
          nH = parseFloat (nH);
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Would Like to combine the aligned items into a single compound item.