Contact Sheet II question

I'm running CS3 and make contact sheets for weddings. 50 to 100 8.5x11 sheets is typical. Is there a way to get CS3 to save and close each contact sheet after its made, rather than leaving it as an open document on the desktop. It's a pain to have to manually save and close each one separately, and I have run out of Ram on occasion because of too many open documents, so CS3 can't finish the contacts. I didn't see anything in the forum search.
Thanks JeffN-

I'll answer my own question so others can benefit from it or a future search.
A free script called CSX contact sheet X fits the bill. Custom everything, including the option to save the and close the completed contact sheets, even save them as a Jpeg if you want. Find it at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173281&package_id=207621&release_id= 611852
JeffN

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