Finder problems using network folders

I am using NFS in my setup with an iBook and a PowerMac G5 both using NFS to network to a Linux fileserver. I am having some unusual problems with the Finder. Specifically, when I try to copy files from a local to a mounted NFS folder using the Finder, it can cause the system to hang. Moreover, even when copying a file within an NFS folder to the same folder under a different file name and then deleting the copy, the Finder display often goes crazy sometimes refusing to display any files in the folder or even worse, scrambling the file and/or subfolder names in that NFS folder. The problem seems to be entirely in Finder because when I look at the same folder in Terminal, everything works fine -- there is no underlying NFS problem.
The problem is even more acute when I use the NFS union mount option. What I want to do in my iBook is to union mount a network users diretory on top of /Users -- this way, both local and network users will have their directories available to them in the same place. Union mounts drive the Finder crazy and this can be readily checked. The mount seems to work fine, and the finder displays the union-ed directory fine. However, when you try to look at any of the folders in the directory, I basically get a system folder that is not even in the same directory tree sometimes, and at others, random network folders. Again, when looking at things in Terminal everything seems to work fine.
What is wrong with Finder and NFS? How on earth can Finder have problems displaying a directory structure? I keep having other problems when using GUI based programs with NFS volumes -- random failures seem all too common while the Terminal seems to work fine each time. Is the Apple implementation of NFS hopelessly broken? Or is it just the Finder that has problems. Either way, I am surprised and concerned that a mounted network directory exhibits seemingly random behavior in a GUI. Any help on these issues would be much appreciated.
Power Mac G5 2.0Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Power Mac G5 2.0Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Seems to be new behavior that if you delete a directory you are currently in it jumps back to the root instead of a directory above or after the deleted one. Just press the back button and you will be back in the directory.

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