Yes I was trying to convert to Black and white and save as a jpg. But after you said to change to 100, I just selected save as jpg on 4 images to see if it fixed it. As per your suggestion above, I went to some older files and tried to run a long, many layer action, and it worked just fine on the 6 new files I tried. Seems the problem is with the current files. I just don't know how to fix it. I have had this problem off and on in the past and just went through each file and did the saves manually. But a wedding ....UGH.