Solution for "Continue on fail"?

Question

In think this issue exists not only for my specific example: whenever an action fails, Automator stops. End of workflow. This might be ok if there is a logic error in the workflow but if not, this can be really frustrating...
What I'm trying to do is download images from webgalleries which works perfectly fine in the beginning of the workflow, at least to the point where it comes to actually downloading the files. Since it happens every now and then that links to images are broken or an image is corrupted, Automator will start downloading the images until one of those broken links comes up and then Automator stops, reporting an error "Could not download suchandsuch.jpg: file doesn't exist (-1) occurred in Download URLs".
I don't care if there's one or two images that it can't download but at least it should download the rest of them regardless and continue with the workflow. In that manner, Automator acts like the Finder... if you copy 5000 files from one place to another and file 21 has an error, it will stop right there and not care about if the rest of the 4979 files were ok. So an option "Continue on fail" would be helpful but there isn't any.... :o(
Any suggestions on how to get around this?
PMG5 Dual 2GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Answer 1

Replace the Download URLs action with the following AppleScript action:
on run {input, parameters}
repeat with this_item in input
tell application "URL Access Scripting"
set new_path to (reverse of every item of this_item as string)
set new_path to (items 1 thru ((offset of "/" in new_path) - 1) of new_path)
set new_path to reverse of new_path as string
try
download this_item to ("path:to:download:folder:" & new_path)
end try
end tell
end repeat
end run
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