Numbers: Save file as xls using AppleScript

Hi all,
I need to remove all the external links from an Excel file. Tried to do this first using Automator and the Excel actions, but every time Excel opens one of the files it displays an error message that it's missing the external files and the Automator sequence is pauzed. Now I found out that if I open the Excel file with the Numbers app and save it again in the same file format (xls), the links are broken.
Now my question is how I can open the Excel files using Numbers and save them again as xls files. Since there are no Automator actions for Numbers, I'd like to accomplish this by using an AppleScript, which I'm very new to. Somebody help?
Thanks in advance

Some nice scripts for saving iWork files to Office formats were listed here.
I think the problem comes in with opening the Excel file with Numbers in a script. I believe this often brings up a Document Warnings window that requires user input, and I haven't seen any good way to deal with that in a script.

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