Open/Save Panels taking forever to open

Hi all
The last few months, the open and save panels have been taking forever to open on my mac (by forever, I mean I will have to sit and watch the spinning beach-ball for at least a minute while the computer thinks about it). It normally (well, always) happens the first time any app has to open them, but then they open fine after that. (until the next application wants to open one).
Is this a global problem with the recent builds of 10.4? Or is it my computer being weird?
Adam

Ah yes.
I seem to remember back in the 10.3 days there was a similar problem with certain applications (actually, I think it was iTunes taking forever to open if you had the iDisk mounted). Anyhow, I shall simply have to change how I store my files (i.e. not on the iDisk by default).
Thanks for the suggestions!
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