Batch/Actions Like Option In Dreamweaver?

I have a very standard photo gallery layout. The user clicks on a thumbnail and it send them to a page that has a large version of the image that is the format of my webpage with a header, footer and Discus box.
I use a template that I made for each of the large images so each one is a separate page. Normally I just go in click on the editable section I have set up for each picture and load the file for the image that I want go rename the file to be the next number up and save it then repeat.
It was tedious but was fine when I didn’t have as much content coming in as I do now.
Now I sometimes have upwards of a 100+ photos to do at a time and it takes forever.
Is there anyway that Dreamweaver CS6 (Windows) can do a “batch process like” action such as in Photoshop such that I tell it the folder that has all my images and it runs through the folder creating a separate file for each page it creates in ascending order?
If not what are my options? I could just make a basic photo album page using Dreamweaver but then I loose all my style for the pages and the Discus option. I also use stylized thumbnails so the lightbox option isn’t all that appealing to me either.

DW doesn't have anything like this with the clickity-click functionality that Photoshop's batch image processor has. You could probably write something in PHP that would go off of batch created thumbnails and "large" images though. Nancy O has a nice little php script that works with Fancy Box and pulls in images from folders into a gallery...
http://alt-web.com/GALLERY/GalleryTest.php
But that's not quite the same as what you're doing.

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Ok, we're getting there! The "Open As Smart Object" helped with the
300 dpi problem (yeeeeah!).
The last part - I don't know if we can fix this.
The file naming convention for this company is:
AAA####AAAA.######.jpg
So basically it's a long alphanumeric with a period IN the file name.
(I know, stupid, but that's the way it is).
When I run the "Save for Web" option and do nothing with the file
name, it truncates my file name and removes all the numbers after the
period.
So it looks like this:
Original: wes0140cmyk.693876.eps
Final:     wes0140cmyk.jpg
Any way we can get that not to happen?
Thanks you've been enormously helpful!
Quoting MTSTUNER <[email protected]>:
For eps files try an open as generic eps step at the beginning of the action
and for the export step (save for web), don't change the name
suggested by the
save for web dialog and save to the folder where you want eps files saved.
Leave the other steps including the close without saving step.
http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/51211/eps1.png
Set the batch dialog as below and the create droplet dialog in a similar way.
http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/51218/eps.png
MTSTUNER
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