Photoshop Place... Command

When I try to use the Place command it doesn't place the jpg at the center of the document. This is a problem because I'm using Place in many actions that I've created and if the jpg doesn't start at center of the document, then the translation is off.
Details: The document template I am using is 1960x3010. previously in CS3 when I placed a jpg or w/e it always put it at the center of the document (980,1505). Now in CS4 I goto use my actions and the Place command and it's always slightly off. The Place command is putting things at 983,1505.5 and such, which screws up the final placement of the images. SO what can I do?? Oh and I have tried this on OSX and Windows machines, bother with same wrong result. I have roughly 100 actions that use Place and would rather not have to go through and try and fix every single one manually when they worked perfect in CS3.

Seriously Nothing??? I also noticed that my actions are off when it comes to transforming. Transforming in the sense of position x,y. They are all either half a pixel too high or too low. It's as if CS4 randomly rounds up or down.

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IM Sorry tomaxxi, am I suppose to be inputting something somewhere here in
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                                                                                From:       tomaxxi <[email protected]>
To:         Robert Borchardt <[email protected]>
Date:       11/08/2010 03:29 PM
Subject:    Scripting to load all pdfs in a month into the place command?
Sorry for delay...
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