I've never played with automating Adobe products, even though I do like to play with graphical programming.

Tonight for the first time I read the Adobe CS3 "Scripting Guide" pdf and gave it a go...

Patty made a cool template which we use with our button making machine. It is always tedious to copy and paste a grid of buttons once you are happy with once instance...

So I wrote this script which works with her template.

function not(value){
 return ! value;
}

var layers = app.activeDocument.layers;
var layer = layers["Place Photo Here"];
if(layer == null || not(layer.locked)){
  var origional =  layer.placedItems[0];
  for(var row = 0; row < 5; row++){
    for(var col = 0; col < 4; col++){
      if(row == 0 && col == 0){
        //this is where original lives... 
      }else{
        var aCopy =origional.duplicate();
     aCopy.left = origional.left + (col * 135); 
     aCopy.top = origional.top - (row * 135); 
      }    
 }  
  }
}else{
  alert("Expected a Layer \"Place Photo Here\"\nTo exists and be unlocked"); 
}