Random Confetti script

I have a ton of icons 100x100 and I made a droplet to import them into a document as separate layers and make them 125X125. I now need to make all of the images look like they are falling out of a hole, like confetti squares. is there a way I can make each layer look like it is falling, randomly ( I don't want each image to have the same perspective.) If some one could script this, that would be great. I am almost clueless when it comes to java script. Or if someone could tell me how to do this with an action that would be great to. I really do not want to change more than 1000 layers separately.

You could try attached Script at Your own risk.
I tried it of course, but with Scripts it’s pretty easy for me to overlook stuff.
Edit:
This Script only randomly redistributes, scales, rotates and skews the SO-layers in a layerset, so actually it does not provide perspectival shortening.
And what may be more of a problem: it does so randomly, meaning that the topmost layers may end up smaller than lower layers, which, assuming that all the pieces of confetti are supposed to be of about identical size, would appear implausible.
I suppose one could either forgo the randomness of the rescaling completely and scale according to layer-order or limit the amount of randomness.

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Change all of their file names to a numerical order, starting with the number 1.
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    * 3.jpg
    * 4.jpg
Be sure each image has the same extension (either all jpg, png, or gif),
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Category 3 = Turkish
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$ /usr/bin/osascript << EOS
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http://www.dvdafteredit.com/node/1771#comment-1886
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Sounds ok but here is how you do that.
With the text tool selected, draw a text box anywhere you
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tested the code and it works properly.

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