Finder stalling

Is this a common occurrence. I go to a public idisk folder and click on a large movie file. Finder now becomes unusable. Basically crashed. Relaunch doesn't work, the only thing to do is open activity monitor and force quit something called mount-webdav.
Any ideas, comments.
Rob
UK

Mine is doing almost the same thing. I compressed a movie into jpeg files flor a windows and now my finder wont work...anybody help you yet?

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