Batch doesn't seem to work with Save for Web

Using Photoshop CS3 on Leopard. This should be simple: I want to create thumbnail images of a folder full of PDFs.
I create an action that opens the PDF, opens the first page at a width of 200 pixels, flattens it, Save for Web at 60% quality, and closes without saving.
I simply cannot run this action on a folder of PDFs without it trying to overwrite the same filename each time. 'Override Action "Save As" Commands' checkbox makes no difference, nor does choosing a different folder as destination.
What am I doing wrong? I've been trying everything, and searching the web, for nearly 2 hours.
francois

Hi Paul,
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it, but there are two problems:
1) I use the "First page only" setting, but in some of my PDFs, it comes out with a double-page spread consisting of the last page and the first page.
2) File sizes are much too big. If I use Save for Web at 60% quality, the same file comes to 16K, and with this script, 100KB. (This is for web use.)
I doubt that the script could be adapted to fix these problems, so I'm still hoping somebody can advise how to make Photoshop's Batch function work correctly.
francois

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