Automator screenshot errors in lion

I'm not sure if this is a bug or some difference in behaviour in automator, but i'm having trouble working with the 'take screenshot' action.  essentially, before upgrading to lion, i had a number of automator workflows that would take a screenshot of a window, then rename the file with the date, and move it to a specific folder (used mostly for my own reference for online payments and purchases).  as of the upgrade to lion, the automator workflow errors out after taking the screenshot (see image) with an error "conversion from image files to files/folders failed - 1 error" with a sub-heading "-[_NSArrayM descriptorType]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x401e12840".  the problem seems to be in the 'take screenshot' action, as i can't get it to pass anything to any other action. i've searched all over for a solution and i've got nothing, i'd really love some help with this.  thanks.

I had exactly the same problem with Lion 10.7.3, always a ""-[_NSArrayM descriptorType]: unrecognized selector" error when trying to pass the screenshot's filename to a rename workflow...
But! I found a solution by using "run shell script" which will run the "screencapture" command from the Terminal.app
If you open "Terminal.app" from /Applications/Utilities/ and type:
man screencapture
you will get the manual of the screencapture command.
Here we go:
1. Add a "Run Shell script", Use "Shell: /bin/bash" is fine and add the following line:
screencapture ~/Pictures/screenshot.png
We just need to do this once: since the screenshot.png was not created yet for the next workflow command (Get Specified Finder Items", just run the Automator action so that it will create the screenshot.png in your Pictures folder.
You could even choose a .png file and rename it to screenshot.png and put it in your Pictures folder.
Note the "tilde" ~ before /Pictures...this is UNIX: so it's nothing else as writing: /Users/<yourUserName>/Pictures
2. After we have run the command to create the screenshot.png, we add "Get Specified Finder Items":
    click on the "Add..." button: select then the "screenshot.png"  file in your Pictures folder.
3. Now add "Date or Time" etc. and modify as you wish or skip directly to 4:
4. Add New Mail Message
5. Send Outgoing Messages
Voilà that's it!
Hope this helps
Gilles

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