Automate in Drop Down Menu on right click?

Greetings all.
I am just stepping into automator and hope that it can really help with all of the repetitive actions that I do throughout the week. (aside from making me breakfast). I have been surprised at the amazingly small amount of documentation on automator.
How are people effectively applying automator actions? When I right click on a file or a folder I see near the bottom of the drop-down menu a list item for "automator." Currently it only houses a list item called "create workflow." is it possible to save my actions somewhere so that they show up in the drop-down menu? I want to simply right click on an item and scroll to automator > do my action.
Is this possible?
Any other workflow placement techniques or places where I can point to the effective use of workflow would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks all!
-i
2x2.0 gHz G5   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  

To save the workflow in the contextual menu, save it as a Finder plugin.
File>Save As Plug-In...>Plugin for Finder.
Most of the other places or ways that you can use the workflow are in that same Save As Plug-in window.
ie. a Folder Action- will run the workflow on any files added to the folder the workflow is applied to as they are added.
iCal Alarms- get added to the list of alarm options for iCal events.
Script Menu- will add the workflow to the script menu on the main menu bar

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