Phantom click-and-hold on Dock - why?

Hi all! I've actually had this problem for so long, I don't recall when it exactly started - but when purchase of a new Magic Mouse didn't change the behaviour, I decided to finally hit the support boards.
Often, but with no predictability, I click - ONCE - on a Dock icon, only to have the screen darken and the options bubble come up instead of simply switching to that app. The second time i click, it invariably works fine. For the life of me I swear I'm not clicking any differently either time.
Like I say, this is random and seemingly impossible to reproduce on cue, but it happens ALL the time.
For all I know, this is behaviour that also happens elsewhere, but it's only on the dock that this press-and-hold action seems to ever actually do anything - though I never intentionally press-hold on the Dock, I see that if I do that, this behaviour always occurs - at least with running apps. On non-running apps, a different kind of options list comes up and is not accompanied by screen darkening.
Perhaps it's related to Expose?
Anyway - very strange and if anyone else has experienced this I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks!
PS - Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

Hi
If you could send an example code, how it is done, maybe somebody will help.
Pawel

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