Batch Process/Actions Automation with CS3 - Save 2 Files at Once

Trying to figure this out is making my head spin. Say I have three files in a folder called house.tif, apple.tif, and dog.tif. I want to run a batch process on those to save two separate PDF files for each, one high res and one low res, that would ideally stay in the same folder and be named house_lowres.pdf and house_highres.pdf, apple_lowres.pdf and apple_highres.pdf etc.
How can I do that with Actions and Batch Processing without overwriting any files?
Thanks!
Kim

I was wondering if you had a chance to look more into it?
Thanks a lot,
Didier-

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