Launch Application Issue - Somebody with Automator experience please

I had created an Application in Automator that was working until recently. I am running Snow Leopard with all updates.
The entire application works, except for the "Launch Application" macro. The last step in my Application is to Launch the Front Row app.
Although my automated application works, every time I run this, I get the following message:
The action "Launch Application" encountered an error.
Check the action's properties and try running the workflow again.
When I look at the log, I get the following:
Launch Application failed - 1 error
Front Row got an error: Application isn't running (-600)
Like I said earlier, my automation works, I just get this error every time. I have even tried just creating a 1 step "Launch Application" workflow and get this same message. However, if I try to launch other programs, it works.
Any help would be appreciated.

ok i made such workflow. I do get an error although front row launches. I'm not sure what the deal here is. but you can always do it by simulatiung th keyboard shortcut to launch front row. the default one is command+escape. you can use the following "run applescript" action to produce it
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "System Events"
key code 53 using command down
end tell
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