Stacks dotted outlines

Since upgrading from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 stacks sometimes have a delay in loading.
When I click on the stacks on the dock the they opens fine but oftentimes there are blacks with a white dotted outline for a second or two before loading their icons.
this happen even if a don't make any change to the stack in beetween.. ie it can open fine (without delays) for let's say 5 times then at the sixt time i have the dalay, and the 8 times good and 1 bad
and so on
here are the links to an image and a short movie that document the issue
http://i38.tinypic.com/eo65s.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1qLmMD8K4
(sometimes the dotted icons stay longer before getting correctly drawn
(between one and two seconds)
does anybody have the same issue? or any idea of the cause?
Thanks

Apple responded to me saying that
"Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based on the following information:
This is correct behavior. Rather than waiting until all icons have loaded, leading to slow response time, they are loaded on demand. The white outline (which is also used in the Finder for the same purpose) indicates that the icon is in the process of loading."
honestly i don't see it as an improvement, i never had lazy preview problems before Snow leopard, an can't get used to this new way..

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