Preview.app new bug : stops opening new files

Starting a couple weeks ago, perhaps with my update to iLife 09 or perhaps related to a recent system update, Preview.app has a new bug for me.
If I open a few files (jpg, pdf, etc) with Preview.app, it will mysteriously stop opening new files. Double clicking the files in Finder, using Preview->Menu->File->Open, or any "open with..." functionality causes Preview to get the focus (come forward) but the file does not open.
I am not able to make it happen consistently with any set of files, but it is not any single file causing the problem. I've had this happen every day for the last couple weeks and it is now moved from annoyance to extreme annoyance.
If I close Preview.app and restart it, the same file that would not open will open fine. I have not been able to narrow this down, but I see this in Console:
4/17/09 2:12:29 PM Fri Apr 17 Preview[11193] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
As I said, the main thing I've changed recently is installing iLife 09. I'll continue to try to create a replicatable test set, but so far it seems more mercurial than that
Anyone else seeing this?

Well, let me describe it a different way. I do not believe there is any way permissions for the files I'm opening could have anything to do with this.
1) I open a jpg with preview, leave preview.app running
2) I go do something else
3) I open a PDF in firefox, it opens preview with the pdf
4) I go do something else
5) I open a jpeg with preview
6) I try to open another jpeg with preview and it does not open.
7) No file of any sort, even the same file I opened in step 1 or 5 will now open in Preview. Preview.app is now completely unable to open new files.
Generally, I leave Preview.app running. This bug makes that completely non-functional. It also means I can't use preview.app to compare images side by side because it so often won't open the images after a dozen or so files get opened during its process-life.
Message was edited by: blinc

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