Strange Nautilus behavior - Or is it Bash?

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I have been using FC5 for some time with no known problems.
Running FC5 with latest updates on an Athalon 64 X2 processor.

Today I was downloading an rpm from the internet and wanted to install
the package and that is when I encountered the problem.

Downloading went well, the downloader (from firefox) saw the directory
where it was to be saved, and nautilus shows the file there.
When I tried to use the shell (in a terminal window) and do the install
the directory does not appear to exist.

I then did a bit more detective work and things get even more wierd.
>From the shell, an ls of my download directory shows 57 directories.  In
nautilus I see 102 directories at the same location. Almost half are not
accessible from bash!!!!!

I tried creating a new directory with the same name as one that is seen
in nautilus but not in bash, *and it let me do that*.  Any new directory
created from the bash shell is not seen in nautilus, and directories
that have been touched by nautilus cannot be seen by bash (even if they
were visible earlier).  

It seems that if the folder is created by nautilus during a download it
cannot be seen by the standard shell.  Also if I copy something (with
nautilus) from one of the "hidden" directories that are already there to
one of the directories that can be seen from bash, the destination
directory also disappears.

Has anyone else seen this weirdness?  Is it related to Nautilus?  Bash?
or even SELinux?  It may be strictly on the x86_64 platform, or maybe on
all architectures.  I know it is not the same on my FC4 box (i386
architecture).

I do not know when it started, but it certainly is here now.

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