Adding shortcuts to Vista's Favourite Links sidebar crashes Vista

Adding shortcuts to Vista's Favourite Links sidebar crashes Vista or causes windows explorer to stop responding.

My work around is to add them to the bar manually, instead of dragging and dropping into the bar itself:

1. Right-click on Favourite Links bar
2. Select "Open Favourite Links Folder"
3. Copy and paste the application.folder which you want a shortcut to
4. Right-click in the Favourite Links bar and "Paste Shortcut"
5. For me (most likely due to a different error) I have to paste twice before Vista is willing to give in and actually do anything upon paste. So if you don't see your shortcut in the folder try pasting a few times.
6. Done!
   
   
   
7. Now try and see if you can drag and drop other folders into the bar, for me it worked back to normal again.