"Application can't be found" error for files and folders

This has become mind boggling for me.
Starting last week, files I've created (namely in either Adobe Photoshop CS5 or Illustrator CS5) have started giving me "Application can't be found" errors when trying to open them. They show up when I use spotlight to search for the file, but they don't show up in Finder and can't be found when trying to browse for them via the apps used to create them.
Now I can't open a particular folder either (same symptoms and errors as above), which should have nothing to do with any applications.
Have rebooted numerous times and am up to date on all firmware. I know these files exist and did work at one point because I uploaded them to be printed last week with no issues. But sometime between now and then (and I haven't touched them since) they decided to stop working. Please help!

I am annoyed by, I think, the same problem.  I would like to drag Pages files directly to the finder in the dock, but now with Mavericks I can not do this.  It is bothersome to have to click on the finder to open it up when I did not have to do that with the old operating system.  I hope someone can help us both out. 
I also hope that in the next update Apple addresses the concerns many are having with the newest version of Pages.  Until something is changed, I am sticking with old Pages because I find it to be a much better program to use.  

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