Spring-loaded folders open BEHIND the main finder window.

When I try to drag and drop files using the spring-loaded folders feature, the 2nd tier of spring-loaded folders ALWAYS opens BEHIND the main window, making a drop (or further navigation) impossible. Anybody else experiencing this?
This is a brand new Macbook Air with Lion installed natively. Files & programs were migrated from a Time Machine backup using migration assistant.

Turning spring-loaded folders off and then back on in Finder preferences seems to have fixed this.

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