Quandary with batch rename of photos

This seems like it ought to be a simple task, but I'm stumped. I've got a couple hundred photos in an Event that I want to rename with a title + number. This part is easy using iPhoto's "Batch Change".
But then some time later, I need to be able to add more photos to that Event and rename them with the same scheme. The problem is that the Batch Change doesn't let me specify what number I want the new photos to start at. It just starts them at 1 so I end up with duplicate titles within the event. Is there some clever way to do this that I haven't found yet?
The Batch Change feature does allow for renaming the Title to match the Filename, but I've read that messing about in the Finder (to actually rename the files themselves) is a big NO-NO, so I don't think I want to go that route. But I haven't been able to find anything within Automator or any plug-ins that will allow for this changing of the photo title while specifying a starting index number.
Hoping someone can point me to a way to do this. Thanks.

I thought I'd follow up here in case others run into this. It turns out that you can achieve this as long as you sort it properly before the rename. An easy way to do this is to rename the newly added photos to something alphabetically after the set that is already in the event. Then just sort by title, Select All in the Event and do the batch rename again. All the original photos will retain their original titles (including the appended number) and the new ones will get new names that begin numerically after those.
It would still be way better if the batch change just let you specify the number you want to start with.

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I need them to read: ABC-100-01-name
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OK, try adding this to your scripts folder… Done slighty long hand so's you can swap about if needed…
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#engine main
if ( BridgeTalk.appName == 'bridge' ) {
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You can select the files you want to rename, right click and choose "Batch Change". Select the title, select Text, and then type in a name... click on the checkbox to append a sequence number to the photo.
OR if you want to go through and manually select photos and rename them, just edit their title.
NOW for the tricky part. This renames the image in the iPhoto library, but as you mentioned, the filenames are not being changed. Select the photos you just renamed, and export them (from the file menu). You then can direct iPhoto to export them using the TITLE rather than the existing original file name. Look in the folder, and you will see that you have new files created with the title as the filename instead.
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406793.html
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it altered the file type- so I guess they aren't jpegs anymore! I can't open them in any program! Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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