ANy solution to guost folders after editing in Photoshop?

Question

I think I have read only two threads on this problem... But amongst my friends and collaborators, 3 out of 5 experience the "ghost folder" problem when opening a file from LR into Photoshop.
The problem goes as follow:
a) In LR2, select RAW file to EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP
b) edit in Photoshop, then save the file.
c) going back into LR2, a "gost folder" now appears at the top of all folders in your Library. This is a replica folder name of the original folder where you selected your RAW file to edit in Photoshop. This Ghost Folder now contains your .PSD file you just saved. No other files.
d) if you check into the original folder in your LR2, your PSD photo does not appear there.
e) if you check on your hard disk directly, the PSD file appears in the correct folder.
f) the only way I found to fix this is to:
i) select original folder in LR2 library
ii) synchronize folder (can take very long in LR2, especially if there are over 150 photos in the folder)
iii) once folder has been synchronized, delete "ghost folder" in LR2 library.
iv) stacking has to be done manually after that.
This is an annoying process to fix this bug to say the least.
Anyone knows if there is a real fix for this problem?

Answer 1

Thanks Lennart.
The fix you suggested does not fix my Ghost Folder problem.
That said, I finally did find a fix for this problem:
Here's the fix I found, which simply involves selecting Photoshop as an Additional External Editor:
a) go in your LR2 preferences
b) under the External Editor tab, under "additional external editor", click on the button CHOOSE and navigate to your Adobe Photoshop folder. Select Photoshop.exe .
c) ignore LR2 warning that says Photoshop is already configured as your external editor.
d) now, every time you wish to open a photo in PS from LR, right-click on the photo, select EDIT IN PHOTOSHOP.EXE instead of the first choice (edit in photoshop cs3).
This method will now create a duplicate PSD file right away of your photo in the correct folder. No more Ghost Folder problem. OF course, this means that every time you open a photo in PS, you now have a PSD file in your folder (as opposed to LR2's feature which allows you (normally) to open a photo in PS, and it won't appear as a PSD in your folder until you actually save the file in PS). So we could say this "fix" behaves pretty much the same way LR1.x used to handle opening files in PS.