Opening a stacked image

Hi there, i've been having problems opening a load of images ive got for a while now and i just can't seem to get photoshop to do it right. So ive come here for some advice/tips.
Basically i have some micrographs ive taken which consist of 4 stacked images, a brightfield image (Grayscale) followed by 3 images in the RGB channels, i mainly just want the RGB images however when i open them in photoshop (currently CS4) all I get is the gray channel and the first image, no other channels/layers/stacks are available, i've tried lots of different approaches but i can't seem to get them to work.
However I can open them in Fiji (Image J) and I can edit them how i'd like (remove the brightfield channel but keep the rgb channels and edit the levels) but i have a large volume of pictures to run through (several hundred) and the automation on fiji isn't working properly. I'd use the automation on photoshop which would work brilliantly if i could only get them to open.
I really dont wont to have to edit every single individual picture in image J which is my only real option at the moment so please any help would be greatly appreciated. Ive uploaded a sample image and a edited image here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/375080934/Sample_Images.zip.html
and also
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HDT7AENE
Cheers for any help!

Well is there anyway or format I can convert them to without having to split up and remake all the stacks. In the end I want to play about with each channel seperately and I have several hundred to go through so splitting them up and i'd end up with close to 500 pictures to put back together.
Is there a format i can convert them to which seperates the stacks into channels? Or some software which can do it as a batch process? I'm currently using ImageJ which can do that but the batch processing doesn't seem to work (it keeps coming up with error messages, and theres not exactly much in the way of support sites for it). I'd prefer to keep them as tiffs or other file formats which can keep the intensity value data and other bits picked up by the microscope.
Cheers for any assistance

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