Slow Finder Restart

When I restart Finder under Snow Leopard, it takes a very long time. Upwards of 20 seconds. Does anyone else have this issue? Have you found a solution?
As an aside: Apple should not have released a rewritten Finder with a new OS. Speaking as a software engineer I can say that a rewrite of an application produces a completely new application. They make look and act similar, but the similarity stops there. As Finder is the main way of interacting with the computer, any glitch in Finder is written off as a problem with the new OS. If Mr Jobs has asked me, I would have suggested that the new Finder had been released as a beta like they did with Safari 4. Not as a component of an OS release. Unfortunately he never returns my calls.

When I restart Finder under Snow Leopard, it takes a very long time. Upwards of 20 seconds. Does anyone else have this issue? Have you found a solution?
As an aside: Apple should not have released a rewritten Finder with a new OS. Speaking as a software engineer I can say that a rewrite of an application produces a completely new application. They make look and act similar, but the similarity stops there. As Finder is the main way of interacting with the computer, any glitch in Finder is written off as a problem with the new OS. If Mr Jobs has asked me, I would have suggested that the new Finder had been released as a beta like they did with Safari 4. Not as a component of an OS release. Unfortunately he never returns my calls.

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