Place an object like Illustrator does.

Hi. I need a way for Photoshop to place an object like Illustrator does. Sure, Smart Objects are nice but I need a method where I have a PS file and 1 or more layers in it are referenced. When these references are updated the PS file should update automatically (yes, I will have to have the file open and save ...). Illustrator does this ... page layout apps do this. I need for PS to do this or find a work method that will help do this. Any thoughts?
The specific details:
We have several hundred images of our app's interface. The images are composites of generic interface and language-specific interface. To make things easier when updating or translating docs we snag the local parts of the interface.
We would then place and align the separate images in FrameMaker. We're moving to a new tool and output and we need to put all of the images together in a single image file but want to retain the ability to only update the localized sections. Smart Objects are not smart when trying to do this as they require you to either (essentially) re-import the object (using Replace) or edit the object from the composite image. This obviates the ability to simply replace the target image and have the composite update.
So ... any input? Thoughts? Ideas? I considered the possiblity of doing this from Illustrator but that is just so much more ... demanding.

Yes one thought, but it's not perfect:
I think this would require a Phoroshop Javascript which does the following:
First, prepare the document: Each smartobject should be named like the actual file of it's original content, so the script knows where to look for changes, like "screenshots/shot1.jpg", "titles/title1.png" and so on.
Second, the script:
It should go through all smartobjects in the document and then check the file (which it gets by the name of the smartobject) and it's date.
If it's newer than the document's last changed date, it should replace the content, otherwise just skip it.
Well I don't know if the Photoshop Javascript is actually capable of things like that, but it can do a lot though and can be a big helper for everything batch-related

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