Why does System Preferences keep trying to launch?

Hi all,
Every now and then System Preferences starts to bounce in the doc (even when I have done nothing to launch it). It then fails to load and stops bouncing.
After this if I try to launch it myself from the doc it does nothing. If I launch it from the apple menu it does laod and a second System Preferences app appears in the doc.
It's all very strange - anyone know why it might be doing this?
Cheers
James

No, I don't know why it's doing it, but my first instinct would be to remove the bouncy icon from the dock, open sys prefs from the Apple menu and right click on the new dock icon, choose options>keep in dock.
And see if that cures it or not.

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