desperate plea

Hi All

This is either easy or hard and being a novice with photoshop I could really do with help.
I am shooting soccer this weekend and need to mail pictures on the fly to the editor.
i am normally really slow at the edit so any advice appreciated.

I am using lightroom and have CS2

i need to build some simple actions I gather you can set up automated 'actions' in photoshop.
i need to

1 post process - levels sharpen etc
2 border the photos in red - this very very important but I can't figure out how to do that.
3 automate it ? with Actions

I am sorry if I am being a dunce but have got not a lot of time to teach myself and set it up.

I am on an Apple powerbook

I'm on the run, but I see no one has replied to you on this, so here is a quick tut:

Open the actions pallet, (the little arrow on the upper left), select New Action, name your action, press Record button, preform sharpening, levels etc., press stop button, (black square left of the record button), and your action will save. Open a new image, select the action you just made and press play.

Same with the border. Select the color you want with your pallet, create and name new action as above, select Edit/Stoke, Stroke/Location Center, determine size of border and press OK.

If you start recording an action and include opening a file and saving, it will include that process in the action. You can start the action on one file in a folder and it will continue until all the files are processed.

One important note: I would make copies of all files and process the copies. You can include this in your action but you don't have much time to figure all this out by this week end. Good luck.

thank you so much

now anyone else got any idea of the order and things i should consider to make the pics pop ie how much sharpening (how) and what i should do in lightroom v cs2