Opening multiple documents

I'm experiencing a strange and intermittent problem when I try to open multiple documents from the Finder. If I select a number of items and try to open them all at once, sometimes only some of the documents open.
Just now, I attempted to open 15 documents in Dreamweaver and only nine opened. The only commonality I could find is the modification date: the ones that opened were all modified yesterday at 4:02pm or earlier, while the six that didn't open were modified 4:08 or later. When I select any or all of those six, only the most-recently modified opens. Same behavior regardless of how I try to open them: multiple-select and (1) double-click, (2) drag all to Dock icon, (3) right-click and Open/Open with...
When it happens, I usually work around it by using the applications Open dialog and selecting the items there. It's been happening for weeks/months (possibly since upgrading to 10.6.4?), and I've just lived with it, but it's becoming frustrating; for instance, if I want to do a batch automated task in Photoshop or a search-and-replace in Dreamweaver in all open documents...only to discover that not all of my documents were open.
Thanks in advance.

Does this behavior occur with Mac applications, or only Adobe apps?
-mj

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