Finder crashes when trying to open HD/Folders/Console/App Store

Recently I tried running the recent update for Mountain Lion on my 4 year old Macbook. It seemed that the install went fine, but now i'm having an issue where Finder keeps crashing whenever I try to open the hard disk or any file folder. It also crashes out of most programs except Firefox.
I've tried some of the advice posted here previously, such as checking Console for the crash specifics and trying to locate the finder plist file, but I can't get any further than clicking on the folder/application before it crashes out.
I tried reinstalling Mountain Lion, but that hasn't seemed to work, I've also tried booting up in safe mode but no dice.
Am I going to have to do a complete reinstall? I'd rather avoid that if at all possible.
Any help you can give would be great.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

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