Troy
Ive seen Astro Anarchys work, very impressive, so I just now tried the star removal action you pointed to. wow, what a frantic thing that is

. On a couple of images, it was very good, on others a specatular mess

. I had a go with Noel Cabanies actions a while ago with mixed results too. These actions are very handy when they work, and seem very complex, way more thought in them than steps I have ever done, very clever. But as one would expect, they try and cover an average image, with minimal or no adjustments, but I found they often need lots of tweaking for a given image, and they are so complex, the required tweaks are sometimes hard to work out.