Front Row + alias folders: crash!

I was managing to view movies I have stored in my MBP's hd but not in the Movies folder from the Front Row interface, and I found with Google the tip of adding a folder alias to the Movies folder, in order to see that folder from Front Row and to be able to search in it for other videos.
I did it and it works, I'm able to navigate in the folder I added, the problem is that if I start a video in this folder, Front Row will crash. And it isn't a problem of codecs or of that particular video in general, because I tried to move that same video in the Movie folder, and doing that Front Row plays it properly.
So how can I obtain to play videos from folders different from the Movie folder in Front Row without problems?

Sorry Shony, been using multiple alias's for external and network drives as well as HDD folders, never a problem with Front Row

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