I wanted to like Path Finder, but within 10 minutes of using the trial version to move some files it crashed and I lost data.

I gave up on it, but never did find anything that looked as capable on paper.

Yeah, Pathfinder's file transferring is far from reliable for large sets of files (although the normal finder tends to be just as bad with large file transfers). For queuing a bunch of small file transfers it's usually okay.

It's more a replacement for Forklift (another great commander app) or other commander apps. Pathfinder is actually a finder replacement and fixes a ton of the little terrible things in finder.