Finder Freezes when I try to get file info

G5, OSX 3.9
Occasionally finder will freeze and become unresponsive when I try to check a file's info. I control+click on the file and the drop down menu appears normally, but when I click "Get Info" the Finder freezes; I get the spinning colour wheel of death and Finder won't respond. Forcing Finder to re-launch works fine and I haven't had to restart the computer yet, but I want to nip this problem in the bud right now before it gets any worse.
Can anyone help?

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It is same as mine, but worser than yours... My internal HD is failure, Do not restart often it can create heaviest corrpt in Files! Back up Important included Mail, Preferences, Applications you downloaded, etc to External HD or to CD-RW. If you have External HD, Do it, before too late.
No Disk Utility or FCSK(FSCK?) can you trust, because they cannot tell if its HD is bad...
Remember if Finder is freezing, it is in HD with sereve corrpt in this file which cannot fix. Do not restart it, Back up all... I did try like you do, but nothing work out without Disk Warrior. Make sure Back up all before it stop working. If it is, then buy new HD.
I tried do Clean Install (Archive and Install), but still the same problem as even getting worser... Its "Bootstrap Errors" Bad errors I found out its in HD during installing while opening Error log (in Installer menu?). Let me give you link I learned:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1999003&
That is all if it is helpful to you. Smile...
Andy
iBook G4 (Late 2004) Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.33Ghz - 14.1" - 786MB -
iBook G4 (Late 2004) Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.33Ghz - 14.1" - 786MB

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