Why does system preferences not pop up after 2nd time accessing it using right click on desktop?

Any help? Genius bar was stumped. I reinstalled mt. lion, but it still persists. Thanks.

Your question is very confusing ... especially "after 2nd time accessing it using right click on desktop".
"Using right click" -- why would you do that?  What are you right clicking?
"On desktop" -- does that mean on a vacant area of your desktop?
Anyway, a quick way to System Preferences is to simply click normally on the System Preferences icon in the dock, which looks like this:

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