Need a fix for the 'folder last opened date'

Question

I have been using Hazel [from www.noodlesoft.com] to set the colours of recently opened or modified files to make them easier to spot.
Within Hazel, I have set rules to monitor files contained in a named folder (and sub-folders contained therein) so I can visually spot what I have recently been working on. The rules achieve this by setting the label colours of:
• files worked on in the last 2 days to 'Green'
• unless already set to 'Green', files worked on in the last 7 days to 'Blue'
• unless already set to 'Green' or 'Blue', files worked on in the last 14 days to 'Purple'
• remove label colours for all files labelled 'Purple', 'Green' or 'Blue' that were last worked on over 14 days ago
Hazels works very well and achieves the effect I am after for files contained in that folder and its sub-folders. No problems there.
The problem I have is in defining a similar scheme of rules to apply to FOLDERS using a rule in Hazel to set the colour of a folder (or sub-folder) by reference to the date on which a folder was last opened.
For some reason, Finder does NOT update the last opened date for a folder. In fact, I have discovered (by painstakingly getting information a folder at a time) that a number of folders have date anomalies like the example below:
Date created: 4 Sep 2006
Modified date: today [which is correct as I deleted a file from in this folder]
Date opened: 31 Oct 2006 [which ignores that fact I had to open the folder today to delete the file...]
Any ideas on what could be going wrong here? Or more to the point, how I can fix this? I have run Disk Utility and using Onyx, ensured all three maintenance scripts have been run.
Any thoughts?
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

I am going to have to abandon Firefox and go back to IE. The fact that there has been no response is extremely disheartening. I am quite sure there is some malware involved and don't want to risk ID theft. This kind of problem should be the #1 concern for a browser company. I have regrets because I like Firefox otherwise and think it superior to the other browsers on the market including IE. C'est la vie.