Finder hanging and corrupting boot disk on multiple machines

I encountered a problem on two different machines today with Finder creating aliases. I have done this before without problems and after repairing the damage, things worked. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this an/or know if there is a fix. Here is my OS setup for both machines:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.2.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
Boot Mode: Normal
Secure Virtual Memory: Not Enabled
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
This is what I did to produce the hang:
1. Opened the Macintosh HD view and selected a NAS drive running Samba.
2. Entered that volume and selected 'Create Alias' for a file.
3. Finder hung until I force quit it.
4. Finder would not re-start for some reason and reboot hung.
5. Upon rebooting, the boot disk had to be repaired.
6. The last files used, which were moved to Lost+Found appeared to be lock files (.lck)
I have Finder dumps for both cases but I'm unable to attach or insert them into this post successfully. Any help would be appreciated:

i'll be surprised if anyone can give you 100% guarantee that this will work fine.
It will definitely work on the computer you install it from.
Plugging the SSD to other machine - although it may start up -  in my opinion it has "Kernel Panic" written all over it.
Would be probably OK with identical Mac models but you are talking about a range of Macs with different hardware in.
It will be interesting if someone does it and posts on this subject.

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