Quark and Photoshop crashing the finder

Hi
I am having a major problem with one of my computers and cannot find an answer in other posts.
I have a G5 iMac, 1GB Ram, running OSX.4.3. I use Quark 4.1 on Classic, and Photoshop 7 Native. Everything works just fine, except when I click on a picture (inside Quark) and select "Open Publisher". It will work a few times, opening the picture in Photoshop with no problems, but on the 5th or 6th time the Finder will come to a halt, and freeze for about 3 minutes, after which the picture will open. While I am waiting for the picture to open, everything else works just fine, I can open other pictures in Photoshop, I can continue working on the document in Quark. The only thing that doesnt work is the finder.
This problem happens with every document, and with different pictures every time.
I have re-installed the OS, I have changed the RAM in the computer. I do not know what to do next
Thank you for your help.

The Finder shows closed, compressed file size. The file size in the Image Size dialog (to the right of Pixel Dimensions:) shows the open file size of a composite, uncompressed image--- which should be roughly 3 times number of pixels (1000 x 1000 pixels = one million pixels = 2.86MB in an RGB 8/bit/channel file) regardless of file format or layers.
The reference CP posted in #2 is a little misleading on Adobe's part; As CP states even the Photoshop native PSD format uses compression (lossless RLE). So a .PSD file size in Finder vs. Image Size Dialog may be different. Save a solid color flat PSD file and you'll see a big difference between closed vs. open file size
Try saving a flat TIFF file with no compression. That should be closer to (except for meta-data) to file size shown when it is opened in Image Size dialog.

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