Unable to open folder aliases

Hi,
I discovered a strange thing with both Keynote 06 and 08. Launch one of them, open an existing file and try to open an alias of a folder. For me at least, aliases are not available in the open window.
Do you have the same behavior?

no error message, no nothing. just nothing happens. its quite odd.
I found a work around though, albeit a bit of an odd one...for anyone reading this that has the same problem - I made an "alias" of the folder in question, then was able to load the folder by loading the alias (only once though, wouldn't load a 2nd time), then copy all the info from the folder into a new folder.
voila you have access to the folder now.
an odd way to do it, but I couldn't find any other way of getting access.
edit: seems it might have been due to copying a write-protected file over from Windows XP
Message was edited by: sureshk

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