Setting "automator" for a task

hello, i'm not sure if it's a software bug or what but it seems this issue is still going on. my volume reverts back to internal speakers when awaking from sleep even though line out is selected. i go into prefs and select line in, then line out and i have volume on my external speakers.
can i have automator do this for me when awaking from sleep? i've never used automator before so i'm a newbie.
thx

I have a similar problem with my new Mac Pro. I thought that it might be an issue with either Snow Leopard, which I hadn't had before, or with the Mac Pro. I thought I had found the problem: that I was using the old Apple sphere speakers that get their power via FireWire. Since this computer has no FW400 ports, I have the speakers' FW plugged into an external drive. Prior to this I had an iMac with FW400 ports. So I thought that it wasn't being recognized by the Sound Preferences as being plugged in upon startup since the drive starts just a hair after the computer. My solution was to do an Automator workflow for iCal since my computer is scheduled to come on at the same time every day. I scheduled the iCal script to run a few minutes after scheduled startup.
There were a couple of things to figure out there I tried doing it all with the Watch Me Do. Unfortunately, it always screwed up which menu item to choose when I used a drop down menu to open System Preferences. I solved that by using the Launch Application command, and chose System Preferences. Then I recorded the rest of the actions, and that worked.
My only problem now is that every time I restart or startup the computer manually, the Sound Pref reverts back to Internal Speakers. It seems to be fine awaking from sleep. The selection of Line Out is retained.
I was an old QuicKeys user, and with that, you were able to set conditions like upon startup, upon waking up, and that sort of thing. I don't see that in Automator. I saw recently that QuicKeys is available for OS X now. I may check that out. The old versions worked great.

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ShelleyBrodie,
That's because the syntax of your formula isn't quite what you intend. The correct syntax is:
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I'm struggling with the following task:
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at com.thortech.xl.ejb.beansimpl.tcUserOperationsBean.provisionObject(tcUserOperationsBean.java:2925)\
at com.thortech.xl.ejb.beansimpl.tcUserOperationsBean.provisionObject(tcUserOperationsBean.java:2666)\
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at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)\
at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:310)\
at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:182)\
at com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:149)\
...skipped
at Thor.API.Operations.tcUserOperationsIntfDelegate.provisionObject(Unknown Source)\
... skipped
What did I wrong?
Regards,
Vladimir

Hi Vladimir,
Please select 'Allow Multiple Instance' checkbox for the process task.
Thanks,
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