3 clicks to open applications

Am I missing some shortcut here?
With Leopard when I was in say safari and then I clicked an icon in the doc such as mail that was already open just hidden behind the safari window, the apps would switch and mail would pop up infront of safari straight away.
Now when I click on mail, it highlights/ shadows it but i may have to click it a further 2 times (3 in total) for mails window to actually show infront of safari.
Am I doing something wrong or is this the new "improved" expose?

My apps are behaving the way you want, just as they did in v10.4.11 (I skipped 10.5 altogether.) I only get the hilite/darkening of the screen when I click and hold on the Dock, not if I just click. Maybe there's a mouse setting interfering in a way that makes a click take longer somehow?
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