Exporting Illustrator Symbols to a New Art Board

Anyone know of any scripts that will:
Take Adobe Illustrator Symbols in your current document's symbol library and...
Place them on an art board in either the same document or a new one?
The symbols should retain their original sizes, with an option to resize if needed
The symbols should be placed with adequate spacing on the new art board
The symbols should be put in their own layers when placed on the new art board
Would be great if the symbol names could be placed beneath each symbol for reference
I've seen something very, very close here, which already does 1, 3, and 4: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3613498. If you can modify it to do some of the following above, that would be splendid.
But the script requires the user to place in a value for sizing the symbols before exporting them to the artboard. I like this as an option, but would be better if it would allow you to retain orginal sizes.
Basically, this is something that could help to create a starter UI Kit from symbols.
Thanks - Jux

Jux, did you find a solution to your question, I'm trying to achieve the same result
I have a graphic moch-up of an app design I have working on in illustrator. All the graphic elements I have created have been captured as symbols. I would like to export all those symbols out to PNG format if posable, without resizing.
Just like you I also found the script http://forums.adobe.com/message/3613498  but i find this option is not completely suitable as the script is asking me to nominate a size.
After extracting all the symbols to layers, then i would use another script  Export Illustrator Layers and/or Artboards as PNGs and PDFs | Matthew Ericson - ericson.net output layer or art board to PNG.
Im also looking around for a script that would export all symbols to layers retaining the names of the symbols to layers or art board.
Thanks, Pete

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