Apple Mail and Automator Not Simpatico in Leopard

I am trying to take a select group of mail messages, combine their contents into a text edit file, and then filter the contents of the text edit file to show me what I want. So far, I have been unsuccessful at getting what I want in Leopard, though I ran the same workflow in Tiger and everything was great.
Basically, its the following actions:
1. Find Mail Messages in Mail
2. Combine Mail Messages
3. Filter Paragraphs
4. New Text File
It seems to be getting hung up on step 1, but I can't tell why. If I try and run this action Mail locks up and goes to 100% CPU usage according to Activity Monitor.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? Thanks.

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I really like my Mac but this is the most un-userfriendly, un-"it just works" thing I've run across in the 23 years I've been using Macintosh...

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