macOS Help tweaking applescript in service workflow

[jabberwooky]

Would love any help with this to improve my workflow:

I found an applescript online that I have used to build a service within automator. It allows me to right click on a .pages document and convert it to pdf. Currently though, the naming of the file isn't working quite as I expected:

Example.pages
[right click, run pages2pdf service]
(output-->) Example.pagesExample.pdf

Here is the applescript:

on run {input, parameters}
	
	-- based on code from http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-have-one-thousand-pages-documents-to.html
	
	--on open theFiles
	set outputFiles to {}
	set theFiles to input
	
	tell application "Pages"
		repeat with aFile in theFiles
			open aFile
			set docName to name of front document
			set docPath to path of front document
			-- Remove .pages extension.
			set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ".pages"
			-- Add .doc extension.
			set docName to first text item of docName
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs
			-- Save file in same folder
			set docPathAndName to docPath & docName
			save front document as "SLDocumentTypePDF" in docPathAndName
			close front document
			set end of outputFiles to docPathAndName & ".pdf"
		end repeat
	end tell
	--end open
	
	
	return outputFiles
end run

Any tips, suggestions, answers?

(running OS X 10.6.7)