Save as Plug-in dialog box doesn't allow me to select anything but "Finder"

I'm trying to make a folder action that takes any images and imports them to iPhoto. Automator isn't letting me save my script as as anything but a Finder plug-in. Is this normal?

This is an old topic at this point, but I ran into this same problem. I logged in as another user and the problem didn't appear.
On a whim I changed permissions on the contents of the ~/Library/Workflows/Applications folder by typing:
chmod 777 *
and then quitting and restarting Automator. Now the plugin dialog box isn't greyed out.

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