Smart Album's jumping around after edits

Hello,
I'm working on organizing my large library of images and I've created a few simple smart albums to group images by date so that it is easier for me to categorize them. These can be rather large smart albums - 1,000 - 2,000 images.
Everything works fine until I start making edits to the images in the smart album. When I do this, the smart album appears to reload and it frequently "jumps" to a different part of the album. For example, about on image 500 or so of a 1,200 image Smart album, I was going through and making stacks. After each stack was created the smart album view would "jump" back up to image 250 or so - and I would have to scroll back down to me previous location in the photo list.
I checked the sort order to make sure I wasn't messing that up. I was using image date and the stack operations I was performing didn't substantially alter the order of images by their dates.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
-Steve G

One thing to check on if your library is large. When you open your smart album, let it settle for a little bit as the library is queried to match images to your smart search criteria. It is not the fastest operation it does. Check for no spinning wheels in the lower control bar and check the Task List (under window) is empty of work.
I have noticed an Image Manager task show-up in the Task List on occasion, seemingly umprompted and i let that end before i do more work as it seriously bogs-down its work.
Try letting it settle a few mins (depending on your library size).

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