Finder Still Buggy in 10.5

In using 10.4 on a Power Mac G4 the Finder was buggy. In particular after running for a while there were a number of annoying issues. The most significant was:
When downloading files to the desktop they often didn't appear. I had to go to
/Users/<acctname>/Desktop
to find them.
The solution to this was to relaunch the Finder.
I just bought a PRO MAC with 10.5.7. The lost downloaded file problem still occurs after running for some time. Solution is the same; relaunch the Finder. I can't believe that Apple hasn't fixed this.
I may have noticed some other strange Finder things but can't be sure. I've only had the computer a couple of weeks and still in the process of "organizing" directories and their views.

Cheers to all. The system came preloaded with the OS. The only things I did were to upgrade from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 via Software Update, configure my desktop the way I want it (never touched any system pref files) and installed a number of applications from DVR's or DMG's (e.g., Office, Photoshop Elements, GraphicConverter, Transmit, BBEdit, DragThing, Norton Antivirus, MoreInternet, LittleSnitch, IBackup for Mac, SuperDuper, DropDMG, ....). I assumed that the application prefs from the old machine would work on this one; but, being the paranoid type and going from a PPC to Intel I didn't move any I reset my prefs manually in the applications.
The only things I moved were working files like Word and Excel files, jpeg images, Applescripts and a few sets of web site files (I do pro bono development for some non profits and test things on my computer before uploading to the live site). Note that I did configure Apache to run cgi/Perl and php. I also set up and turned on the built in MTA since some of my web scripts need it to send mail.
As far as a browser I use Firefox 3.5b4 with its built in download manager. I did move my FF profile over (nothing but a bunch of text and sqlite files).
Testing with Safari, Opera or anything else is an issue. This failure to appear on the desktop occurs after running for a long time (days) without logging in/out; however, I will give it a try next time it happens.
I have always felt that this was some type of Finder pointer corruption that happened after days of running and recovering memory space or ???. Just a gut feeling.
The good news, for now, is that one of the other very annoying Finder issues I had on the PPC hasn't shown up.
If I find something new I'll post in this thread.
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