Smart Collections Not-so-smart?

I have recently started using smart collections to gather various pictures I have taken of works of art. I have mutliple shots of the same art works, and I want to see all the shots at once in order to delete some and edit others. There are several hundred files in the collection. But each time I make any change to a file (edit or delete it), the entire collection must be re-built (perhaps just re-indexed, but, the panel goes blank it must be re-displayed). This is time consuming and makes working my way through the collection practially impossible. Is there something wrong, or is just the nature of smart collections?

Thanks Curt.
I have avoided the problem by copying all the files in my smart collection into a regular (not "smart") collection.
I was having problems with regular collections, but I eventually solved this problem. (You responded to my post on this issue a couple of weeks back.) Bridge would not remember all the items in a collection after re-starting. All the files were listed in the collection filelist, but the collection would contain only those at the beginning of the list. I discovered the solution by examining the files that caused the problem (i.e., if the collection contained only 57 items after re-starting Bridge, I examined the 58th file named in the filelist). The problematic files all contained apostraphes (') or hyphens (-). Bridge (and Photoshop) allows these characters in filenames, but the filelist is a straight DOS textfile, and so filenames with these characters caused Bridge to stop reading collections files from a filelist as soon at it came across such a character. I used batch renaming to get rid of the offending characters, and now Bridge remembers all the files in my collections.
So, this solved my problem, but it is definitely a bug in the program that Bridge allows characters in filenames that other functions in the program can't recognize.

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