Saving a droplet won't maintain .PNG format...why??

I created an action that includes changing the format in the Save for the Web feature to .png. When I run the action independently it works fine and saves the file as a .png, when I run this same action as a Droplet it saves the files as .psd. This has worked in previous versions, but I can't figure out why it does not work now. Perhaps something has changed in the File Naming section?
This fails to maintain the .png format in both the Mac and PC versions.

What version of photoshop are you using?
Can you post a screenshot of the action and settings your using in the create droplet dialog?

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