Batch OCR from Smart Folder

Setup:
Acrobat 8 pro
Apple OS X Leopard
I'm trying to batch OCR from a smart folder.  I've got the Batch process set up and have created a smart folder from a search in Finder that contains all PDFs created in the last seven days, which is placed into the Finder's sidebar.  The difficulty I'm having is that I can't get Acrobat to OCR a smart folder.  I've tried setting the batch process to ask for a location when running the batch and to run the batch automatically for docs in my smartfolder (located in Library - Saved Searches). 
When I run the batch using the ask for location method, it will not allow me to select the smart folder - it shows up in the selection window, but is greyed out.  When I run the batch using the pre-designated location option, I have been able to designate the saved search folder, but upon running the batch it tells me that no files were processed.  I thought that perhaps I could selected the saved search from the sidebar of the Acrobat folder selection window, but saved searches do not appear there, only media and the usual locations.
Has anybody run up against this?  Hopefully, there's something simple that I'm missing.  All suggestions most welcome!
-Martin Lively

There may not be much you can do if you want to maintain search support for those apps.
The items listed in Other... are Metadata Attributes and custom ones are defined by the app's Spotlight Importer.
If you have 3 Copyright attributes, your app's programmers were not thinking when they wrote the importer.
Apple specifically recommends to developers, "You should avoid creating new metadata attributes if an existing key would be appropriate. For example, if your document tracks the photographer of an image, use the kMDItemAuthors attribute rather than defining a custom photographer key. Or, if your document includes a company name, use the kMDItemOrganizations attribute."
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MDImporters/index.htm l#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001267
If you don't mind limiting your searching ability for those 3rd party app files, you could probably clean up by deleting the offending importer(s) from /Library/Spotlight

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