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Recently I’ve done something similar, so I could adapt that.
On the lower left are the files that were selected in the Script’s dialog (all the same size, though), on the lower right are the resultant images, top center ist the template document with the Smart Object selected.
If you want to give it a try, paste the following text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit (part of Photoshop’s installation, /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities-CS5/ExtendScript Toolkit CS5) and save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop’s Presets/Scripts-folder.
// replace smart object’s content and save psd;
// 2011, use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var theName= myDocument.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1];
var thePath = myDocument.path;
var theLayer = myDocument.activeLayer;
// psd options;
psdOpts = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
psdOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
psdOpts.alphaChannels = true;
psdOpts.layers = true;
psdOpts.spotColors = true;
// check if layer is smart object;
if (theLayer.kind != "LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT") {alert ("selected layer is not a smart object")}
else {
// select files;
if ($.os.search(/windows/i) != -1) {var theFiles = File.openDialog ("please select files", "*.psd;*.tif", true)}
else {var theFiles = File.openDialog ("please select files", getFiles, true)};
if (theFiles) {
// work through the array;
for (var m = 0; m < theFiles.length; m++) {
// replace smart object;
theLayer = replaceContents (theFiles
); var theNewName = theFiles
.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1]; //save jpg;
myDocument.saveAs((new File(thePath+"/"+theName+"_"+theNewName+".psd")),psdOpts,true);
}
}
}
};
////// get psds, tifs and jpgs from files //////
function getFiles (theFile) {
if (theFile.name.match(/\.(psd|tif)$/i)) {
return true
};
};
////// replace contents //////
function replaceContents (newFile) {
// =======================================================
var idplacedLayerReplaceContents = stringIDToTypeID( "placedLayerReplaceContents" );
var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
desc3.putPath( idnull, new File( newFile ) );
var idPgNm = charIDToTypeID( "PgNm" );
desc3.putInteger( idPgNm, 1 );
executeAction( idplacedLayerReplaceContents, desc3, DialogModes.NO );
return app.activeDocument.activeLayer
};
Awesome, it works now. I also modified it to include JPGs. Thank you! 
Stephen Melissa post is 7 years old why post this now? That action also flatten and has a place step and no details of the place step is display. If it an intaractive step the user would need to select the a image place during the place size position the image and after that may have to mask the placed layer to shape. Then there a layer move to where? If the document was just falttened the a place done nothing can be moved below the background layer the placed layer would be on top. Have I missed something?
Actually my post was a reply to a post made yesterday. I was hoping to hear what they added to my script and your post may have killed any chance of that.
Also the Action download link in the thread you post in no longer valid and the Action write up is very poor and would not work if users tried to create it from what is posted. That thread is not timeless.
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