Spotlight search crashes finder

Question

Greetings,
I have searched the discussions for this, but found nothing:
Certainly the answer is probably simple, but it is escaping me...
When I do a Spotlight search of an AFP volume on a Window 2003 server,
and the search contains the exact word as the name of the volume,
it crashes the finder. If I do an abreviated search for the same file,
no crash.
Replicated this crash on three otherwise healthy Macs running 10.4.7.
It is more of iritant than anything. We store client files on volumes
named with the company name, and occassionally we need to search
for files on those volumes obviously containing that same company name.
Below is the log if anyone wants to tell me what it means.
Thanks!
Command: Finder
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Parent: WindowServer [63]
Version: 10.4.6 (10.4.6)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: Finder_FE
Source Version: 5292800
PID: 225
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x0000006c
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9288053c THFSPlusStore::GetGenericIconRef(OpaqueIconRef*&) const + 88
1 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9286a508 THFSPlusStore::ReadIconRef(OpaqueIconRef*&) const + 172
2 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9286a3bc THFSPlusStore::GetIconRef(TPropertyReference&) const + 92
3 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9285bcf0 THFSPlusStore::GetProperty(unsigned long, TPropertyReference&) const + 116
4 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9285b974 TNode::GetProperty(unsigned long, TPropertyReference&, unsigned long long&) const + 996
5 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9285b510 GetNodeProperty(OpaqueNodeRef const*, unsigned long, unsigned long long*, TPropertyReference&) + 160
6 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9286a348 GetNodePropertyAsIconRef + 40

Answer 1

Did you update your OS recently?
After each OS update I download, I always repair my
Disk Permissions afterwards.
Try repairing your permissions using Disk Utility.
Remember to mark as helpful or solved.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, all 36 Macs I maintain are running 10.4.7 (except the QLA servers which run 10.3.9), and have regular maintanance including permissions repair.
I suspect that it has something to do with the AFP volume
name being created by Windows, and only the contents contained within that volume are searchable by a Mac
in Spotlight. But why the crash?
Shouldn't Spotlight just ignore the volume name,
or better, access it through NFS?