Review Photos action

Hello -
I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place to post this question, but it seems like a good place to start. I've been playing around with the Review Photos action in Automator and would love to be able to somehow use it with the Apple remote so I could do some quick and dirty photo sorting Front Row style. I guess what I'd like is to be able to assign Apple remote keys (or even keyboard keys) to the options in the action so I can browse through recent photos and decide which ones to keep, but do it from the couch instead of the desk.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks,
John

This sounds very similar to my problem with Automator 2.02/OS 10.5.4. I created a "cull photos" workflow a while ago which I thought was working - I select a folder, review the images in the folder, and label/rename the rejected photos (and, yes, it would be more than nice if I could deal with each of the three categories rather than only one!).
I opened the workflow tonight and it hung on the "Review Photos" - timed out. I deleted the Action and inserted another, presumably identical action, and it worked. Or so I thought. I managed to correctly rename and label several rejects among 20 photos before I quit the action.
Changing the action slightly to accept multiple files (I had ~700 to process and it was extremely slow) and pre-labeling the selected input files, I ran the workflow again. This time the review photos action on 20 photos quit after the first was accepted. I ran it again and it managed to continue after a reject, but passed nothing to the next action (reporting an error in the log - the action "...Next after Review Photos" was not supplied with the required data).
After several attempts to run it, the action started "spinning" every time and failed to complete. Ever.
Replacing it with a "new" "Review Photos" seemed to work, processing 5 selected photos, but again failing by not providing the next action with the appropriate file names.
None of the images are corrupt, I have selected small numbers of images to avoid overloads, I have saved the workflow, and I have closed and re-opened Automator. I find only this discussion topic which appears similar. What might be happening?
Are there alternatives to "Review Photos", which is a pretty poor applet anyway?

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