Application icon becoming Address Book when "Stacked"

my problem is simple: when i move my Applications folder down to the dock so that i can use it as a stack, its icon changes to the Address Book.
the first time i click the Application icon, it does not open. the second time, it opens but the icon becomes the Address Book icon.
i had an icon i had assigned to Applications when this first happened, but i have changed it a number of times, even copying icons from just a plain Leopard light blue folder, but it still changes to the Address Book icon.
any thoughts?

As long as the folder is not empty, any stack in the Dock will display the first item in that folder. In this case, your first Application is Address Book, so it looks like address book. Same goes with your downloads folder. I have 3 stacks in my Dock that all look like folders, but that's because the stack's first level only contains folders.
I think Apple's first mistake was allowing folders to look like Application icons. This should never happen. It's not only visually busy, but also potentially confusing for new users. The downloads folder I can live with, but with Applications, it should display the Applications logo (or the folder) with a mess of Applications behind it. I could live with that.

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