Mac OSX 10.6.1 Finder Freezing Up

Finder is freezing up on me. It is quite unusual that this is happening
I dont understand what could be causing it. I repaired my permissions and cleared logs and ran some maintenance scripts. It still freezes up. I give it time too like to try and recouperate. still it does this for hours. I even ran a virus scan and nothing viral was found. I am not sure what is going on.. I have just been sending in my error reports and I hope  fixes it.

Greyson,
Did V.K.'s suggestion work for you?
I'm in 10.6.2, and I'm starting to have periodic issues (maybe once or twice a day) with my disk drives (internal, and both external drives) becoming "unavailable", which essentially freezes up all apps.
In the finder, I can open them and drill into the top level of folders, which I assume have been cached somewhere, but going down any further "hangs". On any Volume attached to my system (includes 3 HDDs, and a Flash Drive).
At first I thought it was because I'd just started playing with HardwareGrowler, but I've disabled that and still have the problem. Then I thought my demo of LaunchBar was it, but I disabled that too.
If I CMD-ESC to quit/relaunch finder, all the windows go away, but finder never comes back.
I'll try to do what W.K suggested, and get back to the list with the results...
Steve

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