Actions, batch saving down

Hi,
I am working on an action to save down from CS4 to CS3,
When I first made the action to save as an EPS, I choose File, save as, picked EPS, and chose CS3 as the version. but when I play it back it won't save as CS3, but as CS4.
How can I get the action to use CS3 as the version type.
I'm going to be running this as a batch on 5000 files.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Karleen

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http://i.imgur.com/FE8mSEU.png
In this one below, ive closed everything and run the automate > batch process, which gives me the error you can see here:
http://i.imgur.com/7Cvj26D.png
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Hi Mack,
Thanks a lot for your throughout response - really appreciate it!
I do acknowledge that im new to batch in Photoshop and could possibly why this is not working for me - although in not quite sure why and what I would need to make as a programmed script - would you by any chance try to give me an idea on what specific step needs to be programmed?
My actions are very few and quite simple, and seemed to fit in very nicely in how ive understood the actions feature would work - in any case of not being precise enough here's my exact steps.
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