I have used mass actions in the essential release 5 to tailor lists. It appears that this has been replaced by automation in release 6/7 and is only avaiable in the enterprise editon.
As a very small non profit organistion it is stopping up moving to release 7 - we just cannot afford the cost of the enterprice edition. Are there any plans to reconsider and provide the equivalent of mass actions in the essential edition of release 6/7