Yet another Applescript file renaming question...

Hi all,
Well, having been a full-time Applescripter for five years at Apple, I thought it would be easy to dust my chops off and write a simple script to get a file name from one folder and paste that name onto a file in another folder.... but I guess 15 years of no-scripting has proven too much of a challenge to my aging brain... and I am on a time crunch to get this done for my client.
SO, here is what I'm hoping to get help with. I have no doubt it is pretty simple.
File "A" is in a folder.
File "B" is in a different folder.
I need to GET the name of File A and use it to rename File B.
Can one of you youngin's take 30 seconds and help an old dude out?
Thanks a bunch,
matt

Niel... almost there.
The script works perfectly (with me placing the path instead of just the folder)... thank you so much.
One extra thing though... I didn't realize that the files are different file types (jpg and psd).
So what do I need to do to change the name without changing the file type?
THANKS again!
Matt

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