Windows shares - content not appearing in Finder, potential workaround

After upgrading to Lion I'm having problems seeing shared Windows drives.
- Connecting as normal (apple - K) mounts the root directory as expected.
- I can navigate to a child directory, but can't see the contents of that child directory in the Finder
- However, I can see it if I navigate to it via the Terminal...
In addition, if I navigate to the child directory via the Terminal and issue "open ." a Finder window opens revealing the files. I can then go 'up' a directory to the parent and see the full listing that was not being shown before!
Obviously this is some sort of bug? I am alone in experiencing this?
Tristan

Tristan Collins wrote:
Obviously this is some sort of bug? I am alone in experiencing this?
Well I have no issue with seeing Windows shares on Win 2008 cluster servers and my wifes XP SP3 Dell. Lion does seem to take longer than SL in showing the content of some folders when first opening, but I would say that once the index for the content is complete then there is no delay from then on.

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