Can't access preferences, and action errors

After upgrading a PowerMac G4 to Tiger and installing the Photoshop CS2 action pack v.3.0 in Automator, the "Preferences..." option in the Automator menu is greyed out. Unfortunately I don't remember if this problem just happened after installing the action pack, or was there since the beginning.
If you're familiar with these CS2 actions, I've also been having trouble with the "Filter immediately" option in many of them (it returns a "Can't get item 1 of missing value. (-1728)" error). I feel these problems may be related and due to a bad installation of the action pack.
The mentioned action pack was found here:
http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/?p=339#more-339
Thanks for helping.
PowerMac3,6 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi,
Automator does not have the "Preferences..." option enabled, so you haven't broken anything.
Unfortunately, I don't know much about the CS2 actions, so I can't help with the latter problem, but it is definitely not related to the "Preferences..." being greyed out.

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