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Update: These turds are coming from the TWAIN plugin to Photoshop CS2. Deleting "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS2/Plug-Ins/Import:Export/TWAIN.plugin" fixes it. It was creating these directories every time Photoshop started up, without any actual scanning being involved.
Logging fs_usage didn't help: when the junk was created, it logged mdimport indexing them, but didn't log the creator process. Setting up an "alert" folder action on the Preferences folder was more useful.