Key selection of context menu broken

Hey, since SL I realized a small strange thing. Every time when I select the "open with.." part from a context menu, e.g. in the finder, the context menu gets repeated over and over again. But this only happen when I select with my arrow keys. If I use the mouse to select then there is only the normal view of it.
Here is the link to a screenshot:
http://www.digitaltwilight.de/dl/context_menu.png
Maybe that bug hasn't been posted yet.
I hope you can fix it soon.
Kind regards,
Florian

Move the com.apple.finder.plist file out of /Users/username/Library/Preferences/ to the Desktop, OPTION-click and hold the Finder Dock icon, select Relaunch, and see if the problem persists. Report back.

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