View Options - Calculate All Sizes

For some reason, I am not getting any sizes for folders inside one particular folder even though I have calculate all sizes checked. It is not a speed issue. It works on other folders, but I have one folder that it just fails in.
If I create a totally new folder in another area I get sizes. If I add folders and drag items into these new folders I get sizes. If I drag folders from the non-calculating folder into the correctly working folder the newly added folder still does not calculate. But if I copy the contents of the non-calculating folders into newly created folder then it does calculate the sizes.
Also, if I copy the contents out of a non-calculating folder into a new folder and then copy them back, the folder starts calculating the size. So that is my workaround.
One note, all the folders that are not calculating were copied from a network drive (Novell network).
Just a very odd bug.
Not sure how to report this bug. Any suggestions?

The funny thing is that I have an empty folder which size is impossible to calculate, either by the "calculate all sizes" in the view option or by the Infos window for that folder.
That might be a problem with old folders created in Tiger or before. For example, no way to get the size of any Adobe CS3 folder, but each document or folder size inside each InDesign or Photoshop folder is listed adequately. Stragely, the Illustrator folder works fine !
So, I've done a little experiment. I've created a new folder named "Adobe ind" and put all the content of the "Adobe InDesign" folder. The size came intantly... Than, I've put all the document back in the old folder and everything is OK.
Tedious job, but it works,
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