Batch process not playing actions or saving

I'm having trouble with batch processing on the PC at work.
When using batch processing on my trusty but ancient Mac at home, one file opens, the action plays, and the file is saved and closed before the next file is opened. This is how I perceive batch processing is supposed to work.
But for some reason, any attempt to do a batch process of any kind on the PC at work just opens all the files, then stops. No Actions are performed and nothing gets saved. It doesn't matter if "override action save as" is checked or not, and it doesn't matter what action I attempt to use for the batch. Creating a droplet does the same thing when files are dropped on the droplet.
The office IT staff are decidedly unhelpful on this one. They know the OS and network, but little about the Adobe software. We're running Photoshop CS3 under Windows 7. This problem is slowing me down significantly on large jobs. It's especially frustrating because I know it should work, but it won't.
Help?
-Matt

There you are, along with the details of one of my more frequently-used Actions. If I can get batches to work, I'll make a couple of Actions specifically for the batches that play a bunch of my other Actions.

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