Save File-Dialog not responding

In every document-style app (Pages, TextEdit etc.) the save file dialog suggests iCloud as default destination to save to. When I click the Drop-Down to select another location the whole application hangs and shows me the marvelous marble of death.
Is there anybody else experiencing this? How could this be solved?
(Behaviour seen on 10.8.2 but also on 10.8.1)

to make things clearer a screenshot of the dialog I'm talking about. this happens everywhere such a generic save file dialog appears.

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to make things clearer a screenshot of the dialog I'm talking about. this happens everywhere such a generic save file dialog appears.

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