Finder window refresh

My only problem so far with Leopard is that finder windows don't refresh unless you go back and then return to the folder. Surely this could be fixed with a simple solution?

Two bugs that I've noticed so far relating to this, not sure if it's what you're talking about specifically:
1) When resizing a list view Finder window, if there are more items in the list than can fit in the window and you try to drag-resize it (using the bottom-right resize control); the window doesn't actually refresh +until you let go of the mouse button+. So you end up with a bunch of white space at the bottom of the window where the list should be, but it won't show you the rest of the items until you let up on the mouse button...
Note: This is not always the case. While I can't track it down to any one action that triggers it to happen, it does, which is why it is definitely a bug and not some odd "feature". I just tried it in my Finder to test it and it actually works ok. But 10 minutes from now in some other window, it won't refresh correctly - not exactly sure what's going on.
2) After deleting some files, the available disk space text in the window's status bar part doesn't normally update. I think it is more common with larger files, but never had a problem with it on Tiger (Tiger always updated the text as soon as the trash was finished emptying).
In Leopard, the trash will finish emptying but the window's status text doesn't show the changes for a while - usually only after I close and reopen a window on that drive (though this doesn't always fix it, sometimes it takes well over 45 seconds or more to update and show the changes).

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