Converting .ai illustrations to b&w 600dpi .tif files

Hi everyone, I have 1000+ .ai files that have to be converted to black and white .tif files at 600dpi. What is the quickest, easiest way for me to do that, apart from doing them one at a time? I have CS5 Suite.
Thanks in advance.
Erik

thank you for your suggestions, I havn't used actions before, so I'll have to learn this feature tomorrow...unless either of you want to type a quick step by step for me? (I want to convert 1000 .ai files from a folder situated on my works network drive (T) to a subfolder where the .tif files should be converted too)
many thanks

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