Finder windows .. quits or close!

browsing my finder window often just closes the window! even happens in stacks, ill open say the downloads window and it will start to load up the icon images (ie the preview of the file) then will just close, i can open it again without a problem but it will just repeat the problem???
couldnt see much in the discussions on this?? anyone else have this happen?
j

Have a new MacPro and was cleaning out lproj files and had this happening to me. Anybody have any ideas why? I've never had it happen in my G4 mini.

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