Damon Wicklund writes ...
>
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> It turned out that one of my hard drive partition
> was the cause of the unusual behavior
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> I zeroed the partition and reinitialized it. Works
> like a champ. Thanks. BTW, I have no clue why would a single partition
> would cause that.
>
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Me neither; unless, maybe, the Finder was getting corrupted icon
information from the bad partition.
Rubywand