How to save actions from exchange going directly into CS3

Question

I posted this in the NAPP forum, but I haven't gotten a solution yet. I hope someone here can help.
I downloaded quite a few actions from Adobe exchange. When I did, I got the choice to either put them in a folder or open them in CS3. Many I just clicked to open in CS3. It was more time efficient. However, there are many of them, and I was looking specifically for a cartoon effect (which I don't use very often--special project) However, while I was looking, I found many other interesting actions. Anyway, I would like to clean up the actions area and bring up only the ones I use all the time. Generally I hit clear actions or reset actions and then I bring back in the ones I want. I'm afraid to do this because these actions are not listed in the actions folder. What will happen to them? Will they go away? There are quite a few of them, and I don't want to have to redownload them. Since they are not listed in the actions folder, how can I get them listed and make sure that I can access them again?
I have tried creating a set to move them into. That didn't work. I tried highlighting all of them to put in a set. That didn't work. If they are selected, the flyout menu save actions in grayed out. How do I get them into the action folder?
Any help would be appreciated.
There are a lot of great brushes and things in the exchange, too. That I will tackle next after I figure out what I'm doing with the actions. (With help from the forum, of course)
Thanks

Answer 1

Good point: One can only save one Action Set at a time.
Photoshop really doesn't care where you save .atn files. In other words the folder in which one saves Action Sets (via Save Actions... or via download from the Internet) does not have to be
\Presets\Actions
The benefit of saving .atn files in \Presets\Actions is the file names of .atn files in this folder show up at the bottom of the Actions Palette menu, facilitating easy loading into the Actions Pallete. For .atn files saved elsewhere, the Load Actions... command will do the trick.
>re: I know I physically saved them into folders, but I should be able to see them somewhere, shouldn't I?
Yes.
Try this (assuming you are using Windows XP; if Vista it will be something of this nature):
* Start > Search > For files or folders
* Type .atn in the box labeled "All or part of the file name"
* Click 'Search'
When the search is complete, you should see the .atn files you saved plus any others on your computer.
Hang in there. You'll be an action monster before you know it. :)