Automator still broken - mp3s classed as 'documents' and other "quirks"

Without going into rant mode, it appears that automator is broken.
Can anybody explain why, amongst other things which make absolutely no sense, it thinks that .mp3 files are documents?
I have been trying to use folder actions to keep my downloads folder organised, which used to work fine (albeit with a few quirks if I recall) back in Tiger, but I haven't been able to get work since Leopard/ Snow leopard .
Just checking there isn't something specifically wrong with my machine before I file a bug report, which I'm pretty sure I did in leopard and then in snow-leopard too.

Well, mp3 files are documents for those applications that handle them, just as text files are documents for applications that handle text. I think what is being filtered are document files (vs applications and folders) - there are additional filters for various document types, such as music.

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