(Mods: I wasn't sure where to put this thread, but I thought the Mac Ach folks might be more knowledgeable about this sort of cross-platform issue than the Microsoft Colloquium. I also didn't want to ...
I use the MacOS Finder daily to manage my files and folders. It's an invaluable tool -- and one of the better file managers I use, but that doesn't mean Finder is configured ideally out of the box.