Widget appears on Snow Leopard Desktop at Startup. Random.

Hello everyone,
I just installed two 2GB sticks of Crucial Ram in my 13" Macbook Pro unibody for a total of 4GB of RAM. As soon as I booted up the computer, the weather widget appeared randomly on the desktop. It is completely detached from the dashboard. Any ideas of what could have gone wrong? Do I reseat the RAM?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Click and hold on the widget, call Dashboard while you're holding the widget, then drop the widget on the Dashboard.

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