Batching a multi page pdf to pngs

Hi,
I need to batch a 58 mulit page pdf that needs to be opened in photoshop, resized and then saved for web as a png-24 bit.
I've set up an action to do the above, and ran a batch on it, but for some reason it just doesn't seem to work for me.
When I ran the batch this is what I had chosen:
Set: Default Actions
Action: The defined action i set for above
Source: is from a folder with the pdf inside
- I have override action "open" commands selected
I also did this when unselected, but the batch only opened up the 58 pages...didn't apply the action to it.
Destination: folder I chose
Have the file naming set to:
Document name + extension + starting serial#1
So I'm not exactly sure where I'm going wrong
Anyone have a clue on how I should go about doing this?
Thanks!

A better way would be to use the PDF Processor script.
The script should work in cs2-cs5. (one at bottom of page)
http://ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1882&sid=a56f92e435b9f9cdb63d7f73dd8e56e0
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