Quick selection in an action

Photoshop CS4 Mac OS X Leopard Macbook Pro
Hi There,
I've just try to implement an action with a quick selection tool seems to get selected (as a tool), but the actual usage of the tool does not get recorded.  The idea would be that application of quick selection would be applied to all my photos being processed. Am I doing something wrong or are quick selections not compatible with actions?  Can you use quick selections with any other type of automation such as scripting?
Your help is much appreciated,
Chris

Well, I thought photoshop might be able to remember the start location and the stream of movement afterward.  The Magicwand, for example, works with actions, and this requires human interaction, albeit, a much simplier interaction (a click).
To explain what I am doing is a bit tricky, but I'll give it a try.  I am taking old (100 year old) medium format that have been scanned from glass plates, inverting the image to positive and cropping out the borders from the scan.  All the photos have a similar size and position, but not exact.  My ultimate goal is to automatically crop out the borders.  The magicwand works to some extent for selecting the intertior of the image, but there is some cross over between the border and image, while quick selection does the job almost perfectly.  After selecting the interior I would create a new file (which automatically has the bounds of the current selection) and paste.
Any creative ideas would help.
Chris

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