After Sleep clicking on desktop icons does not open Finder window

The Subject line says it all. This problem has occurred 3 or 4 times since installing Leopard and does not occur after every sleep. The Finder window can still be opened from the Finder toolbar. The problem can recover after another sleep.
Patrick

Apple support is wonderful! The fix took a while but I was able to boot up with Shift key and make changes as directed that restored my auto logon. Downloading Lion update now which is supposed to fix the Keychain problem. If anyone else has this problem - here is the Case # for reference -
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:51:43 -0700
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Subject: PS10 Elements does not open in Windows 8, or opens only once. Can it be fixed?
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