Is what i'm trying to do possible?

i'm a total perfectionist when it comes to my ipod & itunes library and there is one thing that i've been trying to do that would make everything so much easier.
ok, this is what i would normally do manually:
1. all the songs that are soon to be copied to my library are in a specified folder, so i add this folder to my itunes library and convert the songs.
2. i make all the track info lowercase (don't ask...)
3. i delete the original folder since they are now copied in the itunes folder.
is there a way to do this in automator?
this is the workflow that i've been trying but i always get an error:
1. get specified finder items (the folder where all my soon to be added music is kept)
2. import audio file
3. get specified itunes items (recently added playlist)
4. change case of track info (this was an action that someone in these forums found for me)
5. get specified finder items (the folder in step 1)
6. get folder contents
7. move to trash
i always get an error at step 4, where it says that it couldn't find the artist for the playlist or something like that... any help would be appreciated

asli,
Here is the modified AppleScript that removes the dialog. This version still requires you to manually select the playlist.
Is this sufficient or do you require a more automated approach to selecting specific playlists or processing all your playlists at once?
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on GrabPlayListName()
-- Can't get Playlist name without playing a track in playlist
tell application "iTunes"
set theCurrentVolume to sound volume
set sound volume to 0 -- set the volume to zero so user doesn't hear song start
play
set thePlaylist to name of current playlist -- grab the playlist name
pause
rewind -- set the player location back to start of track
set sound volume to theCurrentVolume -- returning volume to previous level
end tell
return thePlaylist
end GrabPlayListName
on ConvertCase(theString)
tell application "TextCommands"
return lowercase theString
end tell
end ConvertCase
on run {}
tell application "iTunes"
activate
delay 2
-- Get the playlist name
set thePlaylist to my GrabPlayListName()
-- Start the conversion process
repeat with trk in tracks of playlist thePlaylist -- repeat for each track in the playlist
-- Convert the strings to appropriate case
set name of trk to my ConvertCase(name of trk)
set album of trk to my ConvertCase(album of trk)
set artist of trk to my ConvertCase(artist of trk)
set composer of trk to my ConvertCase(composer of trk)
set category of trk to my ConvertCase(category of trk)
set grouping of trk to my ConvertCase(grouping of trk)
end repeat
end tell
-- signal end of conversion
beep
beep
end run
</pre>
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