Randomly can't name new folders

About once a month or so, the finder randomly stops allowing me to name any new folder I create. The folder name will be selected, but nothing happens when I try to type in a new name, and it just stays 'untitled,' even if I click off of it and reselect it. I can only rename it if I go under Get Info. The only thing that seems to fix this problem is restarting my machine. This time around the problem progressed-- first I couldn't name any folders and now all of a sudden I can't open Get Info w/ the keyboard command. I can only open it by going to the menu. Any ideas what is causing this wackiness??
Thanks

Same here --
I just created a new folder and couldn't change its name. Finder would give me "more info" (permissions certainly not an issue) and allow me to delete (and then recreate) the folder, but not change its name.
Problem came from out of the blue, on a one-week-old system with all OS updates. Also found this old thread, which also suggests a Finder restart: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8989639
So that'll probably do it, but what gives?
Not so impressed with 10.5.7 so far... first a complete system crash while doing no more than downloading updates (a few hours after booting up for the first time), then networking stopped working (see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2003868), now this...

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-Jerry
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