[development] Best practice for editing multiple nodes on a page

I am working on a bug in the acidfree module. http://drupal.org/node/59439 I have tracked down the issue to a conflict between the path.module the way acidfree edits multiple images at once. Acidfree calls node_load for many images in an album to create a page that allows the user to move/rename/delete many items at once. The problem is that when hook_nodeapi is called it ends up creating a form that does not save the same a single node. Is there a normal/approved/easy method for editing multiple nodes on a page? Any thoughts would be appreciated. I can think of several ways to patch the problem, but I would prefer to submit a 'correct' fix. Thanks- Scott White (wpd) White Paper Designs