Automator "watch me do" function freezes finder

As I was creating a new service using the "watch me do" function in automator, my finder froze each time I tried to test the service I just created. As I was watching the recorded steps, the cursor would start to move extremely slowly and finally froze completely. I was able to reproduce this problem several times. This is in SL 10.6.

I am experiencing the same thing in SL 10.6.1. I was testing a very short and simple automator "watch me do" workflow to perform a simple cut and paste between iWork 09 Numbers and Filemaker 10. Cursor did not freeze but began to move extremely slow. The first and second iteration seemed to work okay. But, it took 87 and 108 seconds to complete third and fourth tests. Successive efforts had similar results. This workflow had only one step (watch me do) in it and nothing else. It was also not part of a loop. I was also NOT able to force quit out of this.
I never experienced this with Leopard. Is this a bug or is there something new with Automator in SL that I am not picking up on?

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