[DuoList] slow Finder

[mko at nt.net]

>It's alive the list is 
>alive.

Yes! Nice to see what a little poke can do. 
:^,~ 

While we're all here, I'll lob a little prob: 

My OS9 Finder has slowed down to a pubcrawl. 
When I doubleclick an app alias on my desktop, 
or use the Recent Apps under the Apple Menu, 
nothing happens for at least 10 seconds. The 
Finder itself is live; I can drag/draw rectangles 
while I'm waiting, as a test. 
I use a USB Cardbus which I trash/eject before 
I pack up the p'book. A month ago I must've 
trashed the hard drive icon by mistake, because I 
got the dreaded <Finder Unexpectedly Quit> box. 
I'm 80% sure this caused my slowdown, and I'm 
90% sure that the cure is a re-install of OS9, but 
I thought I'd fish for a simpler fix first.
I already rebuilt the desktop, and zapped the pram. 
No joy. I mean, what could it possibly be doing for 
10 secs? That's like forever in dog-years. Is it a 
memory thing? Broken alias thing?

p.s. there's 7.28 gigs in my Trash. That wouldn't 
      do something bad, would it? I hate to throw 
      anything out...