Pause workflow until embedded applescript application is complete

I have a multi-step automator workflow that has an embedded "Launch Application" step that calls an applescript application that I've written. The application goes through a list of URLs. I don't want the workflow to start with the next step until my application has cycled through all the URLs. Currently, I have hard coded a pause into the workflow, but I'm looking for something more precise (if I set the pause too long, it results in unnecessary delays, if I set it too short, my workflow gets messed up).
I'm assuming there is some way to modify my application and/or the workflow to send a complete status that can trigger the next step in my workflow.

Or get the 3rd party action called, Wait for Finder Items.
This should work.

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Having trouble with this one. It needs to get the contents of "New Location", including the contents of its subfolders, but not the folders themselves, then filter those items to find the one (and there will only be one) with the same name as the downloaded file, and finally pass that on to the next action as a file (as opposed to text).
I originally tried using Get Specified Finder Items and then Filter Finder Items, but I can't filter by a variable. Which is what led me to try an embedded Applescript. Unfortunately I have no scripting experience, beyond what I picked up on the fly. The scripts above are bits and pieces I snipped and edited from other scripts I found on the web.
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Message was edited by: Boxes are Cool

Only one problem, I duplicated an ash file to downloads (and modified part of it to differentiate the copies) to test it, but the script doesn't seem to be setting it as "theNewFiles", with the variable returning {}. Any ideas? Or am I doing something wrong?
I really don't know. The script seems to work flawlessly in all my tests. Did you choose the right folder, the one called “New Location”, when asked by the script to choose a folder? Did the script work with some other files?
I'd also like to be able to run the script without intervention (possibly even as a folder action script)
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i have a script that is used to convert avchd files to qt formats.
it's got a problem, though, in that it moves from the currently
converting file to the next file too quickly. i thought i'd solved
this behaviour by including a routine that caused the script to
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Revision: 10991
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-17 22:52:28 -0700 (Sat, 17 Oct 2009)
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Fix bug FM-119, where the playhead time doesn't get updated until after the seek has completed. The bug is actually in Flash Player (FP-1705), and the workaround is to wait until NetStream.time gets updated before dispatching the seek completion event. This changelist also updates the unit tests and NetMocker to verify the fix.
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