Finder issues in Mavericks

hi.
I am having MAJOR issues with finder since upgrading to Mavericks. I am a full time professional wedding photographer and use cover flow constantly to sort through images. Ever since I upgraded to mavericks, It is not working correctly. When I forst open a folder it will show the file names but the cover flow only shows the first few images. Once I close and reopen they are back. but... when looking at files, if I press the space bar to view them up close it does not open the file that is highlighted. It will open the one after or before. also... if I am moving a file to a different folder, it will move the wrong one no matter what view I am using. It is VERY FRUSTRATING and is causing my work flow to suffer. I have 3 different machines and it is the same issue on all of them.
It does not happen on my wife's older macbook pro as I have not upgraded the OS yet. PLEASE HELP!!

Finder has some bugs. Hopefully a 10.9.1 update will resolve some of these issue.
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