My Dock freezes on right click - what can I do?

My Dock on Mac OS X Lion freezes everytime I make a right click on an icon... It takes about 20 seconds til it reacts again. What can I do?

Go to ~/Library/Preferences.
Move the com.apple.dock.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Trash.
~ (Tilde) represents your Home folder.
To see your Home library, hold down the Option key while selecting Go in the menu bar.
See if that helped.

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