The application Finder.app can't be opened. (-600)

...After updating to 10.8.2. Anybody else?.

Bob's solution was no solution for me, probably because after trashing those 2 PLISTs I decided to follow critichu's advice of relaunching the Finder rather than logging out or restarting.
Let's face it. When I have these Finder problems, I can always solve them by restarting. But the reason I came to this forum in the first place was to find out how to prevent this from either happening again or solve it quickly so I don't need to logout or restart.
What seems to cause Finder problems for me on a regular basis is my Time Capsule, which is connected to my 10.8.4 DuoCore iMac via Gigabit Ethernet (and shared in our office). For whatever reason, while I am in the midst of copying files to/from the Time Capsule, the Finder will lockup with spinning beachball forever. I have experienced this often in Adobe Illustrator too. When saving a file from Illustrator to my Time Capsule, my entire Mac locks up and I am forced to restart.
Anyway, the problem I have today was not caused by a document save to Time Capsule in Illustrator, but by merely copying files from my Time Capsule to my desktop. The Finder locked up, so I tried to kill it and relaunch. It wouldn't relaunch. So I then started quitting all my open apps (including Illustrator and Outlook), and then mysteriously the Finder launched.
Strangeness began though when I clicked on the Downloads folder sitting in my Dock. I always choose "Show in Finder" when I right-click on that folder in my Dock. But this time when I do that, I get a "Finder can't be opened" error -600. But the Finder is already open! However, when I hit Opt-CMD-ESC, I see two instances of the Finder in the dialog! But in Activity Monitor, I only see one instance of the Finder. And quitting that instance (which quits the Finder visually), still leaves one open instance inside the "Force Quit Applications" dialog!
Yes, I've tried "killall Finder" in the Terminal, but that just gives me the following error:
No matching processes belonging to you were found
Is there really no rememdy for this other than to Logout or Restart? Surely there must be. This is getting quit painful.
I'm also unsure when this started. I think I was still having this problem even under Lion, although exclusively in Illustrator (when saving to my Time Capsule), rather than in the Finder.
I'm baffled.

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No, I tried different drives, and it made no difference.
In the end I turned it off, and did backups with SuperDuper!.
funny you should mention SuperDuper. When you had this problem, did you have SuperDuper scheduled to back up other drives? I have a theory, which I'll test eventally. For some reason, this TM problem only happened at night - not all the times it activated (every hour) during the workday. Why?!? Well, one thing that happens at night for me is a scheduled SuperDuper backup of the same drive (the one TM is backing up) onto a mirror drive (not the one TM is writing to).
Maybe that's when the freeze occurs - when they both coincide at night? I'd think that the Unix-base of OS X shouldn't have any problems when two apps are reading one disk and at the same time, but maybe TM and SuperDuper are both doing some sort of low-level reads that can't be done at the same time? What do you think - might this explain your issues also?
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