Add Chart to Slide using Automator

Keynote 08 version 4.0.3
Automator version 2.0.2 (160)
I am creating a Keynote presentation with Automator, and I am trying to add a chart to a slide and am encountering an error.
Here are the following steps to reproduce the error.
1) Start Automator and create a Custom workflow
2) Drag "Make New Keynote Presentation" to workflow
___a) Change Theme to Black
___b) Change Width to 1024
___c) Change Height to 768
3) Drag "Add Slide to Keynote Presentation" to workflow
4) Drag "Get Specified Text" to workflow (I will talk more about this action more later)
5) Drag "Add Chart to Slide"
___a) Change Chart Type to Area 2D (this is the default for me)
___b) Change Chart Group to Column (this is default for me)
___c) Change Slide to 1 (this is the default for me)
5) Press the Run button on Automator
The error I get is the following:
"Keynote got an error: Invalid key form. (459482768)"
No matter what data I put in step 4 "Get Specified Text" I get an error. The description of "Add Chart to Slide" says the input is a two dimensional array of chart labels and data. What format should this two dimensional array be in? I have tried many different combinations and all have an error.
Has anybody tried to "Add Chart to Slide" and had it work?

It's often necessary to delete the album art from an mp3 track before adding to a slideshow.
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