When click on applications in finder it freezes computer

whenever I click on the applications in my finder and start scrolling down it will freeze up. If i do it more then once sometimes it will take the toolbar off the screen and the only thing i can do is turn it off and back on. I tried listing the apps out using list format and it would not open the applications at all.

gary from BP wrote:
After the latest update to IPhoto 9.12 my pictures folder has changed to a package... How can I change Pictures back to a folder instead of a package?
If Preview and Mail’s media browser don’t work, Gary, can you export all the pictures from the new iPhoto package back to folders and use an earlier copy of iPhoto such as 8.1.2?
I have both versions on my system so it may be the Mail and Preview media browsers are not accessing the new iPhoto package. I thought they were the new version but maybe not; I see a single iPhoto Library icon and when I control-click on it it offers to show the package contents...

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petrock
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btw, I wrote up a bug report on your behalf about this issue and sent it off to Apple (# 5721669)."
I tried this as well and nothing!
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