Mountain lion finder issues?

Just bought 27" iMac a few weeks back. How disappointed I was the it was a Mid-2011 build. I've already bee told about hardware changes made since to resolve whatever issues.
Finder is beginning to crash often. At first I thought it my be my TotalFinder.app causing issues but even when the app is not loaded, I'm finding the same glitches. A window will freeze and I'm unable to select anything within it but I can close it, 98% of the time.
Hyperlinks that trigger "show in finder" scripts, or whatever they are, don't seem to do anything but at times, it the show the location provided the Finder window is already open and in most cases, in the right folder.
this is becoming very frustrating. Especially so because it is NOT triggerring an error report.
Adding insult to injury, I was assured that this new quad-core CPU would blow the pants off my old 17" 2006 2 core. Though some apps seem to run a little better, overall, very little gain.
How can I KNOW what may be running silent on my iMac ? What could interfere with my Finder ? I do a lot of transfers between my new Mac, my old Mac, a couple of Win 7 PCs and both an Android phone and a tablet ( and sometime a Blackberry phone and tablet). These data transfer take an over-excessive amount of time, Is there something wrong with my CPUs? Even Flashdrive transfers ACTUALLY take 10x longer than the nearly 3 year old Win 7 Laptop.
I also can't pick up scanner nor fax from all-in-one HP Laserjet pro.. Can that be connected to finder somehow?
Can anyone offer some advice? Could all the above be realated to one thing?
Please help.
Thank you
ML

Hey GarlandM
thanks for the link. When I set up (mid Sept.) that page was evidently not up.
This helped.
I'll need to review the install settings but I think I may still have issues with permissions because it was originally set up with the office computer via ethernet. When I tried to set things up for me, it would not allow it citing that I did not have permission.
I'll play with it in a bit and see what happens.
Thanks a bunch!!

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Any help would be fantastic, from people with the same problem, or anyone who knows a fix.
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Oct 10 20:22:06 myserver.mycompany.com racoon[13873]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).
No more entries in log file now. Anyone any ideas what's going wrong. Might there be a problem as I use another servername outside as inside (vpn... instead of myserver...)?
Thanks!

Solved, first of all we tested to establish the VPN connection locally by adding the ip address of the server to /etc/hosts for vpn.mycompany.com. The VPN connected without problems then, so it was clear that it is a firewall/router problem, and not a server problem.
After that we studied some more documentations and found that we don't have to open port 50, but ip protocoll 50 (ESP) on the firewall. After that was done, the connection was working from the internet as well.

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