Why won't my system preferences open?

When I click on the system preferences on my dock, it jumps up once but will not open. There is no freeze signal, no visable failures, it just won't open.
Has anyone experienced this before?

Drag the Dock Icon off the Dock.
Then in Applications drag the SystemPreferences Icon to the Dock again.
Logout and login again.

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