Weird window behavior after 10.10.3

I have an interesting issue with 10.10.3 finder window within Column view. In Illustrator and only Illustrator, when I go to Open or Place a file my finder window looks like this:
Look to the far right, I can’t view the files within the folder. And the grey scroll bar abruptly ends. I can't go any farther to view items in folder. I can resize columns but I have to do every time. To add to the weirdness, it is just the Open command this happens. If I do a Save As, it looks like this:
And I can view the files.
I have trashed Finder window prefs and Illustrator prefs and no luck.
Any thoughts???

I've got exactly the same issue with Illustrator CS6. Have tried updating Java with no luck. I'm also getting the same thing in the 'scroll view' (or whatever it's called) finder. Photoshop isn't affected. This only happened after I upgraded to 10.10.3. What I do know is that it's annoying

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>
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>
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>
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