Action with LiveTrace?

I need to LiveTrace 36 frames of a video, and thought an Action might be the best approach to that. I am aware of the 'insert menu option' thing, which I did, but my problem is that it only traces with the default settings. Now I'd like to use the grayscale-preset, but can't figure out how to do that? I even tried to overwrite the Default-preset with the grayscale-settings, which works perfect as long as I use it 'by hand' - as soon as I use it within an action it goes back to the 'old' default, which is pretty useless for this specific job.
I'm not sure how to explain this better, but what I want it to do is batch-convert 36 jpegs into LiveTrace'd ai-files, using the grayscale-preset for the tracing - open, trace as grayscale, save, close. Does anybody have a clue how to achieve that?
I consider myself a more than experienced user of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, and tend to get really annoyed when running into obstacles like this... ;-)
Thanks!

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/245/860271
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