Wow, I have a folder with 5653 files in 9 folders buries down under this
path: "D:\My Documents - Shared\My Pictures\planes". I do not recall any
crashes or hung machines ever. I do have photoshop SE and I do use the
thumbnail view quite often. Am I lucky?

Dunno. It apparently doesn't happen on all computers with Photoshop and XP.
And perhaps Photoshop SE doesn't cause the same problem?

Since neither Adobe nor Microsoft has come out with a real "fix", I suspect
it's one of those "phantom glitches" that affects only machines with some
bizarre combination of factors? Who knows -- maybe you've got to have
Windows XP, plus Photoshop as your default viewer, plus Itunes installed?

It really could be something *that* goofy.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"