Automator actions blocked

Just went into Automator to try something and saw that almost all of the actions associated with iPhoto are blocked: their icons are greyed out and have a sort of "no entry" sign over them. Here's a screenshot showing a number of examples, one of which is highlighted:
iPhoto 11 version 9.5.1 is installed.
Is this normal? If not, any idea how the actions can be reactivated?

The actions are present and apparently correct in HD/System/Library/Automator
I have repaired permissions.
2014-01-16 18:13:37 +0100: Disk Utility started.
2014-01-16 18:13:44 +0100: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2014-01-16 18:13:45 +0100: Permissions differ on “Applications/Utilities”; should be drwxrwxr-x ; they are drwxr-xr-x .
2014-01-16 18:13:45 +0100: Repaired “Applications/Utilities”
2014-01-16 18:14:44 +0100: Group differs on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.
2014-01-16 18:14:44 +0100: Permissions differ on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be -rw-rw-rw- ; they are -rw-r--r-- .
2014-01-16 18:14:44 +0100: Repaired “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”
2014-01-16 18:15:55 +0100: Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.
2014-01-16 18:15:55 +0100: Repaired “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”
2014-01-16 18:18:15 +0100: Group differs on “private/var/db/GPURestartReporter”; should be 0; group is 80.
2014-01-16 18:18:15 +0100: Permissions differ on “private/var/db/GPURestartReporter”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are drwxrwx--- .
2014-01-16 18:18:15 +0100: Repaired “private/var/db/GPURestartReporter”
2014-01-16 18:18:35 +0100:
2014-01-16 18:18:35 +0100: Permissions repair complete
Same situation upon reopening Automator.
Dragging an Xed out action to the workflow does not result in a message, but the action appears as if it were part of the workflow, except that its icon remains "blocked".
Running such an action appears to work, in that it takes time to, for example, Find iPhoto Photos, and "Action is running" is displayed in the Results window. 436 seconds (just over 7 minutes) to search for photo with specific filename in a set of 6300 photos; the result was incorrect, "No results produced," although the photo with the filename is in the set.

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