Actions Save changed location

We use actions to save multiple sizes and various formats of graphics files different locations on a network file server. Over the weekend the server was rebooted. This morning when we tried to use the actions we have been using since July the actions were unable to run, reporting that the destination folder could not be found. When looking at the distination specified in the action, the folder specified in the action displays as a different folder than was original set and was being used on Friday.
Renaming the destination folder the action is currently looking for (which is different from what it should be) in the finder causes the actions destination folder to change to the new name, regardless of if Photoshop is running during the name change or not.
These actions were saved onto a different share on the server and when I reload the actions from a disk file that has not changed since July when the actions were first implemented, the actions still point to the incorrect location.
Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas on how to fix the problem short of completely re-doing the actions?
This happens both in Photoshop CS4 and CS5.
Phil

Something like this could work – remove the suffix and try inserting the correct path manually for the variable myPath in the line
myDocument.exportDocument(new File(myPath+"/"+myDocName+suffix+".jpg"), ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, webOptions);
, save the file from ExtendScript Toolkit into the Presets/Scripts-folder as a jsx and, if it works, you could use that in the Action if need be.
// save for web as jpg with suffix added to name;
// 2011, use iat at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
// the suffix;
var suffix = "-t";
// get document-path and -title thanks to xbytor;
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
if (myDocument.name.indexOf(".") != -1) {var myDocName = myDocument.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1]}
else {var myDocName = myDocument.name};
try {var myPath = myDocument.path}
catch (e) {var myPath = "~/Desktop"};
// save for web options;
var webOptions = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb();
webOptions.format = SaveDocumentType.JPEG;
webOptions.includeProfile = true;
webOptions.interlaced = 0;
webOptions.optimized = true;
webOptions.quality = 60;
// save;
myDocument.exportDocument(new File(myPath+"/"+myDocName+suffix+".jpg"), ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, webOptions);

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