Opening folders from applications expands them - doesn't open them

Hi this is a reoccuring problem. The first time it was fixed when I re-installed my OS. I would like to figure out how to fix it without doing that.
The problem is this:
When I'm in an application (say Macromedia Fireworks) and I go to open a document I go command+O (open) then double click a folder and it expands instead of getting a new view with the folders contents. I'm using the list view not the column view, and this is the catch - - it only happens when I'm opening a folder on a network drive and functions properly when opening folders on my local machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me crazy.

My problem was that my computer created an extra
alias of my network drive which appeared empty.
woodwardo,
I'm not sure how you figured this out, but it works. I think this is caused when applications who use external scratch disks crash, leaving the hidden alias. In my case, I had a ton of scratch files from photoshop and nikon capture on invisible aliases to external drives. Inside these folders were scratch files--almost 4gb worth!
Perhaps what was happening when we couldn't open folders in the finder in open and save dialogs on external drives, was that the apps were referencing the bad invisible alias and couldn't figure out what was happening.
Thanks. It's definitely solved a big problem for me.
Paul
Macbook Pro 2.17 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Macbook Pro 2.17 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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