Why is Mission control showing me icons instead of smaller representations of active apps?

Why is Mission Control looking like this? If I put away Mission Control and reopen it things change a little, the tiny white window in the middle dissapears. I've updated, restarted etc etc.. Any ideas?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I have never seen this before. which MBP are you on???
This could be an issue with a widget in you dashboard or a plugin in safari. 
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3251015?start=0&tstart=0
this link (the poor chum no one replied to him) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3251015?start=0&tstart=0 would suggest a safari plugin you may have on. turn off all your extensions in safari>preferences>extensions for a second and restart or just close safari and reopen (restart if this doesn't do anything)
here's a wild idea, and not sure if it'll do anything, have you tried to relaunch finder? hold option and then right click the finder icon and hit relaunch.
have you tried reseting safari?
either way send this to apple.
You may have to reinstall lion.

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