Replacing an existing file: crash!

Dear readers,
since upgrading to lion, when I try to copy a file over an existing one, the finder crashes.
Observations:
- this does not happens everytime, but it is quite frequent, and usually related to a "complex" replace, where by "complex" I mean not substituting a single, simple file, but rather a folder, or an application.
- for instance today, I copied the application iBank, just updated (but it could have happened with any other file), on the folder containing the previous version. I got the message "the file already exists... etc.". I click replace and then...
gray screen... and the mac restarts (I have checked the option to restart when the mac freezes)... So I guess I got a kernel panic or something similar...
In summary, when replacing a file, usually I get a finder crash/restart. Today for the first time, I got a mac restart! I start to worry...
Does anybody have the same problem when copying/replacing a file?
So far the only workout is to delete first the file/folder/application with the same name, and then copy over the new/replacing one...
But that's not a solution!
Any suggestion/fix?
Thanks for helping!
zipdon

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