I get an error message sometimes in Lion

Hello Everybody!
I don't know why i'm getting this error message. "dotmacfx quit unexpectedly". It has happened 3 times since I upgraded to Lion last wednesday. what does it refer to?
Any clues?
Thanks!

Same error for me too. I just switched routers and I'm not sure if it happens because of that.

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