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That would work, good thought. The downside is that the move step will be different for each source image, but it's at least a feasible solution. Thanks much.

This is also a good point. I'd need to use an app to generate a text list of the files I'm working with (there are a lot of them) and then edit that to include the proper batch commands, but the end result would be correct.

It's too bad photoshop has no way of copying an entire layer including transparency, or of creating variable actions for duplicate layer commands. Either way thanks for the ideas everyone.