Severe Time Capsule crash + Mac OS X bug (repeatable)

Greetings to all.
I seem to have stumbled on a bit of an obscure bug with a Time Capsule, and a computer running Mac OS X 10.6.4 (32-bit kernel). The TC is the latest shipping version, 1TB- all Airport software is up to date.
Simply attempting to unzip any file over ~100MB (possibly smaller, I haven't tried) and then cancelling the operation in Archive Utility will cause the Time Capsule LED to go amber and totally lock up. Internet access is blocked, the WLAN network disappears, and the AFP file share becomes unresponsive.
Furthermore, the computer that was previously connected to the TC (the one that cancelled the unzipping operation) goes a bit wonkey- Archive Utility will perma-hang, and you can't force quit it. Attempting to relaunch the Finder causes the finder to terminate- but not relaunch (the Dock never comes back, nor does the top taskbar).
The system can still be rebooted, but the reboot process takes about 2-3 minutes longer then usual- I'm presuming something is going on in the background here that has to timeout before the system goes down and resets.
The Time Capsule will NOT come back up until the effected OS X system has rebooted. Once this happens, the TC will eventually reboot and the LED will go green again. Operation resumes as normal after that.
Again, I can repeat this indefinitely. I have tested this on multiple systems all running 10.6.4 (on the same Time Capsule). I've even reset and formatted the TC itself. The moment I attempt to unzip a file on a Time Capsule AFP share, the unzip operation will take forever to complete- and cancelling it will cause the TC to "crash" and totally bug out the host OS X system.
What should I do to notify Apple of this?
And/or does anyone else dare to confirm this bug? All you need to do is upload a sufficiently large ZIP file to any Time Capsule AFP share, double-click on it while it's on the share, then click the Cancel button in Archive Manager. AM will immediately hang and the TC LED will go amber in a few seconds.
It doesn't seem to cause any data loss (as far as I can tell), but it's bloody annoying and I'm not to thrilled with the way it glitches out Mac OS X when it does happen. Navigating Time Capsule shares with user data on them is basically a minefield- one wrong double-click on a ZIP archive, and you'll take down the whole TC.
-KT

Keven Tipping wrote:
What should I do to notify Apple of this?
See [Reporting a Problem to Apple|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/BugReport.html].

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