Automator, smotomator...What's the deal YO...

I want to use the Automator just because. I would like to know what you all have done, create with Automator that helps your day easier. I am trying to get an understanding of what Automator does? What setups have you all done that you use everyday?
Thanks
Doobs

A few things I have done with Automator:
There's a website that I need to visit every day, and click a button to update my statistics on it. I wrote an Automator script to log in and push the button, and then saved it as an iCal plugin to do it automatically at the same time for me every day.
I also wrote a script to switch to the login window and then put my Mac to sleep. I used Spark to run this script when I press control-F13.
During the Olympics, I hooked up a camcorder though a VCR, so that I could import TV to iMovie. I wanted to record all the gymnastics events that came on in the middle of the night while I was asleep. I wrote an Automator GUI script to push iMovie's Import button, and then saved it as an iCal plugin, set to run at the time the program came on in the middle of the night, and again at the time the program ended.

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Celt1997 wrote:
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krmurrayjr10 wrote:
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- implement class B
- have a field of class B's type or
- use class B in any of its methods signatures
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Why are my classes being loaded when there's no code that uses them?

Okay, prepare for some gory details...
My actual code is slightly more complicated than A & B, but the context of the error is the same.
Here is what's happening:
The main method, in class A is creating an instance of A;
The constructor of A creates an instance of B;
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Class C.C1 implements interface D.D1.
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The main method, in class A is creating an instance of A;
The constructor of A creates an instance of B;
The constructor of B calls a static method in C;
The static method in C creates an instance of C.
Difference is here:
C contains an instance method M that creates an instance of class D, however method M is NOT called from C's constructor, nor will it EVER be called in the (test) application.
Class D does not appear in any method signatures or as a field type.
Class D is not in the classpath (intentionally).
A NoClassDefFoundError is thrown, indicating that D could not be loaded, with the top method on the stack trace being B.<init> (i.e. no mention of C, the only class that refers to D).
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