Spinning Ball with Finder Problems.

Hey Everyone,
I have a iBook G4 (1.2GHz) running Mac OS X Tiger v 10.4.3 with a major finder issue. Every time I click on the hard drive, the curser becomes a color wheel and keeps spinning. After about 5 minutes, folders start to load in the Finder, but everything is unresponsive and I eventually have to do a hard restart. I even tried to do a clean install of OS X but to no avail. Does anyone have any options to try? I am open to any possibilities.
Thank you,
Greg

I've had multiple problems with Bluetooth, just unplugging the machine while hooked to an external monitor, and yes, Finder has been acting up, but it is not consistent. Not sure what Apple broke, but I was more stable on 10.6.5. Can't imagine that just adding the Mac App Store, and other slight enhancements, they would have messed up this much. I've already had to unload VMWare Fusion because it just wasn't work well at all and I have 8 GB of RAM. Could be that VMWare is just not compatible with this update.
I will continue to test like everyone else, but I hope Apple reads these and sees the problems we are having.

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