Creating Action to Save a Copy at Ill 8?

Illustrator v8 is the magic version for nearly all current 3D applications in the world. Anytime I want to import a vector spline into a 3D app, it'll always want it as a v8 Illustrator file.
I'm trying to create an Action that'll automatically save a copy of my current open document to v8. But Actions doesn't seem to record any of Options panels when saving a file.
Any ideas how to do this?

Nope. Seems like the Action recorded the location and name of the dummy file I saved when recording the Action.
Anytime I play the Action, it saves a copy to that same folder with the same name.

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Rodney
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silkman1
I would be glad for the opportunity to customize a Premiere Elements 12 answer to your Premiere Elements 12 issue.
But, I want to make sure that we are together on the details. This is my understanding of what you have written. Please review and let me
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You have a video created in Windows Movie Maker.
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