Firefox opens multiple icons in Win7 Taskbar

Here's the problem in action: http://www.screenr.com/Usps
Basically, when I put FF on my Taskbar, then open it, it opens another icon with FF in it. I'm very confused.
I've set Win7 taskbar settings to only display 1 icon, and I've made a shortcut directly from the firefox.exe

It doesn't seem to affect performance. It's just annoying to have the two icons load.
Hope it's fixed by Beta 2.

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>
> But then when Firefox is already running, previewing
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>
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>
> I've already tried removing browsers from the preview in
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>
> I think it is a problem with DW CS3 and FF together, not
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> problem as previewing pages from other page editing
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