Can you post your full code of the automated action. I think the problem is 'my_id = record.id'. Otherwise, why dont you make a relationship between two models. I mean you want to store the value of id of model A in model B so you can reference to the records of model A in model B, right? So simply just have a related fields in model B, namely 'x_quote_id' and have it relates to the model A.

That is ultimately what i did.  I just still don't understand why trying to set my_id = record.id doesn't work.  It seems that logically it would store the integer.  Strange behavior in my view.