Issue: Desktop flashes in grey/white after 10.7-update

After I updated iTunes to 10.7 whenever I start to play a new song the desktop flashes grey/white for a second and the dock dissapears. Sometimes it stays grey/white until I start a new song, then the desktop goes back to normal and the dock appears.
It also happens when I play movies, podcasts, ringtones.... And it's obviously a software issue, as it doesn't affect the iTunes-wondow which is always visible, looking normal.
Any others getting this?

I have also seen this issue recently . In Console you may see a log similiar to this one:
13-02-24 11:55:29.477 PM Dock: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 7 beyond bounds for empty array'
*** First throw call stack:
          0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a66bf56 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
          1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff95d87d5e objc_exception_throw + 43
          2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a5f9392 -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:] + 274
          3   Dock                                0x000000010e5e8c58 Dock + 658520
          4   Dock                                0x000000010e684c89 Dock + 1297545
          5   Dock                                0x000000010e684fe2 Dock + 1298402
          6   Dock                                0x000000010e684e43 Dock + 1297987
          7   Dock                                0x000000010e684ea6 Dock + 1298086
          8   Dock                                0x000000010e69a10f Dock + 1384719
          9   Dock                                0x000000010e697ed8 Dock + 1375960
          10 Dock                                0x000000010e69a4b1 Dock + 1385649
          11 Dock                                0x000000010e6116a8 Dock + 825000
          12 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a64f197 ____CFXNotificationPostToken_block_invoke_1 + 311
          13 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a620dfc __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 12
          14 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a5d8f02 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 322
          15 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a600fa7 __CFRunLoopRun + 2023
          16 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8a600486 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
          17 Dock                                0x000000010e639826 Dock + 989222
          18 Dock                                0x000000010e5f34e0 Dock + 701664
          19 ???                                 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
I solved the issue by deleting the com.apple.dock.plist and com.apple.dock.plist.lockfile preferences from the local library (~/Library/Preferences) and restarting the computer.

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