Scroll bounce causing preview.app hang

Preview app has been hanging the entire system when I scroll down to the end of a document and get the scroll bounce effect at the bottom. I have repeated this issue many many times to confirm it.
Finally I used a terminal command to disable the bounce effect:
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0
This has solved the problem. I do however miss the bounce at the end for some strange reason, and was hoping someone could tell me how to correct the underlying problem so that I can re-enable the bounce effect at the end.
Interestingly the problem is not reproduceable in other apps that bounce at the end of a page (e.g. safari).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers
Murray

The problem is related to the HD3000 graphics driver in 10.8 (after doing a lot of research). The problem is being reported with a number of different applications in 10.8 (although apparently the problem has been around since before 10.8), and after checking the administrator console it is pretty clear that this is the problem.
It appears as though we are stuck awaiting a fix from apple.
I have stopped using preview.app, and all is well while using "skim" at the moment.

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