Side bar auto expanding to fit longest filename in file dialog windows

This may sound like a small problem but I have been finding it quite frustrating and it seems to have been introduced with the introduction of Lion (OS 10.7). I use the Finders sidebar to quickly access project folders. Now the names of these folders are often quite long... Say 40 to 50 characters long. Now go to an application and select open, save, import, export, etc. anything that will bring up a file dialog window the I find the side bar automaticly expands to the width of the longest file name in the side bar. If I resize it and then access the dialog box again it is back to that massive size.
This never used to be a problem in snowleapord... Is there a way to fix this?

I'm on 8.2 and I can't get it to fail no matter how I select the desktop. I haven't tried it in 8.0, but I imagine that if this really is a bug, they did know about it and fixed it with 8.2. If this causes a real problem for you, I would suggest upgrading if you can.

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Partly by accident, I hit upon a nice little combination:
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