Finder opens instead of applications when clicked on the dock

Hi I am having and issue where if you click on an application on the dock, the finder window opens and shows the application in the finder instead. I have tried trashing the dock preferences and setting the mouse/keyboard preferences to default.
I have tried swapping out the keyboard and mouse.
It is not user specific, it's a problem for every user on the machine.
It does not happen remotely, when I use ARD, I can click on a dock application and it will open the application, only locally when you are actually at the computer is this happening.
Anyone know what is the problem?
Thanks.

I fixed it by
Going into /System/Library/CoreServices/ on another machine, Grabbing the Dock.app
On the broken machine
opening a terminal
sudo -s
killall Dock
rm -Rf /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
cp -Rf Dock.app /System/Library/CoreServices/

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