Finder behaves strange with MPEG2

Has anyone experienced the following strange behavior:
After I export a movie as an mpeg2 if i select it in the finder the explorer window disappears, the wheel curser spins, and 5 seconds later the window reappears displaying the hard drive root directory. I can get around this by selecting the icon view so i assume the problem must have something to do with apple having a problem displaying a preview of the movie.
while this might seem like an ok work around, i once was unable to recover a file out of the trash because the first item in the trash was an mpeg2 movie. So each time i tried to open the trash the window would close after it encountered the file.

I've had the finder cash wit mpeg-2 many times. so uh yes this is a problem.
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