10.7 finder freezes when file extension changed

Hello community.
A very very annoying bug. I have saved a image from the web and renamed it without an extension. Afterwards I tried to change it to jpg in finder. Finder poped up a window asking me if I am sure. I click "use jpg" and then Finder freezed. I restarted finder and tried again, same thing happened.
As a test, then I tried to rename a .md5 file to .txt, After I confirmed in the window "use txt", Finder freezed for the third time.
Lion is not really ready. In the eye of Apple, we are just test dummies. Sorry.
Greeting!!

Forgot to say, only in list mode the freeze comes up. It seems already happened in Leopard.

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