Batch processing of different actions

Hello everybody,
I'm sorry if such a thread is already existing, but I used the search and coudln't find one. So here is my question:
I have printed a form letter with 600 copies from MS Word 2007 in a single PDF-Document, thus the document consists of 1200 pages. Now I want to split the document in 600 single documents, but please not by hand. I tried to create a batch job but I failed ;)
Does anyone know how I could do that with Acrobat 8 on the one hand or just print 600 single pdf-documents with Word in the first place?
Thanks for your time!

I try creating the meta-action package and got a an error message when running the meta-action using the Batch dialog.
In my workflow I must use Layer 0 instead of the Background layer. This is probably the source of this error.
The next approach would be to use a script with the doAction() method.
The complicated part is assigning the a folder of images  to the script to do batch processing.

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