It is not reassuring when the Finder hangs

Hello,
Recently my iMac started occasionally hanging when I switched to the Finder. It's been once or twice a day. Sometime it will come back after a few minutes. But sometimes I have to relaunch, and I hate having to do that, it makes me feel like the mac is 'unclean' somehow after that and I usually restart the machine.
I just wanted to know if this is a known issue with 10.8.2, hopefully being fixed in 10.8.3? Or is it more likely my machine? I found some stuff online about finding and removing invalid kernel extensions, and I did that. But the issue still persists after many weeks.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Bob

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[code]
<target name="flex-unit-execute-tdmse-test-runner"
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[/code]
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[code]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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[/code]
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