SLOW!!! Finder rendering file listings

When I open a folder it can take up 30 seconds for the finder to list the files in the folder. I don't think this is a spotlight issue as spotlight finished indexing the drive yesterday. This is happening with folders that I have opened already so its not a first time rendering of files. I have 60GB avialable on the drive.
What could be causing this?

De-selecting the file size column is only hiding a problem. Tiger and Leopard never had this problem. When you have "list" view selected in Finder it re-calculates the files sizes.

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