Unable to use Automator scripts

Ever since migrating to Leopard 10.5.1 from Tiger, I have not been able to use any of my Automator scripts. They don't work. I did create a script to rename my files and every time I use it I constantly get an Applescript error -1700.
What's going on here and what should I do?

Can you post the script in question?
Have you opened the workflow in Automator and set each step to show results and run the from there to see where it fails?
The error is "Can't make some data into the expected type." This means it is trying to implicitly convert something to something else. Some changes to the applescript code may not allow the implicit conversion that was working before. If you see what is failing, post the code, I might be able to figure it out.

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