Finder crashes when more than one window is open

I've seen others having problems with Finder crashing in OS X Mavericks, and I've had a similar, though slightly different problem. I can work within one window in Finder fine, but any time I open a second window (or a second tab, one of the new features) Finder will crash. I can't copy anything between drives. Here's what I've tried so far to fix it- everything has failed:
1- Boot in Safe Mode
2- Kill every other running program (i.e. Dropbox, Droplr, etc.)
3- Re-install OS X Mavericks from a USB Drive
4- Repair disk permissions.
5- Zap PRAM
Nothing has helped. For your reference, I'm running a late 2009 iMac I7 with 8GB of RAM, and several external USB drives. Any advice would be appreciated.

You need to look in your user Library/Preferences for the com.apple.finder.plist. Either hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command and select your user Library in your home folder or use the Finder “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by loggin out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you prefer to make your User library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
Show User Library
You might want to bookmark the command. I have to use it again after every update. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.
If that doesn't work, the next time the problem happens, note the date and time the problem occurred, then go to Applications/Utilities/Console and copy the log starting at the time of the crash. Paste the log in a reply. Please do not use a screen shot as they can be hard to read. If there are repeated runs of the same messages, please post only one run. Be selective about what you post and don’t post huge amounts. Make sure there is no personal data visible. Information learned from Linc Davis.

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