Right click in safari 4.0.3 always causing alert sound

Hi, I've just come across this issue, whenever I right click directly in any web page of safari 4.0.3 (by directly I mean, without any text selected, and not in the input field), an alert sound appears. I've tried checking my mouse settings, repairing disk permissions, restoring defaults of keyboard shortcuts, uninstalling some recently installed software/apps, but none of these works. Yet if I right click with selected text or in input field or in any other application, there's no such issue. I wonder if this is a bug of safari 4.0.3 or what. And now I'm really frustrated and can't figure out what can be done to kick this alert sound away. Please help, thanks in advance.
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is it only me? no one has the same issue?

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