Launchpad icons change size after launching app?

For some reason, whenever I launch apps on Launchpad, the icon sizes seem to change. I screenshotted the icons, and especially for Pocket Planes (which has a squarish icon) I found the difference. Before it was 83x81, after launching the app it is 83x87. I have included four examples.
before after
before after

Hi Isla,
I had same problem after update from 10.7 to 10.7.2 and upper versions.
one way I know and working for me is just replace Dock executable file inside Dock.app package with old version.
Detailed instruction you can check on this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfHFctnehb0
Hope it will help you too.

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