Clicking Finder Icon in Dock Doesn't Open New Finder Window

On my MBP with Lion, the left clicking the finder icon does nothing.  It doesn't even change the menu bar focus to finder.    I can right click and then open a new window.    This works like I am accustomed to on my MBP with Lion. 
Any ideas to fix this?
Thanks,
Geraldo.

Open Terminal, type
killall Dock
and press 'return' on the keyboard.
That will solve the issue temporarily. But to fix it permanently you need to go find the 3rd party software that is causing the conflict, probably in your Login Items if a restart didn't fix it. Look here:
 > System Preferences... > Users & Groups | Login Items
Likely suspects are things like
Total Spaces
Path Finder
BetterTouchTool
BetterFinder
but the list of possibilities is endless. Easiset thing to do is just remove EVERYTHING from your login items.

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