Dashboard Web Clip Problems

I have no problem creating web clips for dashboard and following their creation they appear in Dashboard and look fine.
The problem is that if I restart the computer or turn it off or log off and switch users, then when I return half or more of my dashboard web clips do not appear and give me this message ‘Web Clip was made using Safari’s ‘Open in Dashboard Feature’, open Safari”.
Why is this happening and how can I fix it besides recreating the dashboard web clip?

Anyone help us out here?
I haven't had a clip work yet, although I've only tried 5 or so. It is not a great incentive to try more when none of them work. ::grin::
I get the "Web clip was made...." message on all my clips.
Thanks. Joel.

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