Slow Finder windows

Why does my new Mac Pro take 3-4 seconds before it will display a listing the files in a folder in the Finder Window set to display columns. It seems like it has to examine the folder because, if I select a different folder and then select the first folder, the response is much quicker. I just realized how slow it is when I went back to clean off my old MDD machine. It was much more responsive!

Size of folder? number of items? how scattered they are on the drive? directory is fragmented? system busy? disk full?
The Finder seems to have finally gotten a new 'face lift' with Leopard, but it can also have some form of 'amnesia' when it comes to getting files downloaded etc to show up still.
No matter how many times I request that folders by in list view and calculate all sizes, it keeps forgetting and I have to turn off relative dates (again) and select "calculate" by default over again.

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