Automator Workflow as Finder Plug In Doesn't Seem to Work Correctly

Has anyone noticed that if you create an Automator Workflow as a Finder Plug-in in Leopard it does not seem to work correctly or at all?
I have a two action Workflow.
1. Get Selected Finder Items
2. Import Files into iPhoto
When run inside Automator, it works fine. If I save as Finder Plug-in and use it in the Finder, it gets to the second action and dies.
I've seen other posts about Finder Plug-in weirdness and was wondering if this was another symptom.

Yes, I found this out today. Any Finder Workflow that I start with "Get Selected Finder Items" does not work. Hope they fix this soon ...that's an important one to work.

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We have the Encrypt Message plug-in installed to flag the email [SEND SECURE]. This works very well when in Outlook. It does not seem to work when right clicking a file to send outside of Outlook or performing Save and Send from within Microsoft Office. The add-in still shows and users are clicking it and the Send button but the emails are not going securely. We are on Microsoft2010 on mostly XP machines.
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Hi I'm running Addressbook and cannot clear previous entry easily when searching my data base of around 5,000 contacts. I prefer to view in All contacts on a double page spread with details on the right page. Searching doesn't seem to work correctly i

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