At this point, all evidence points to this being a normal fact of life with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard). If you have more than 1 Dashboard widget, you will probably have more than one dashboardclient startup when you run Dashboard. The ratio is probably not a 1:1 ratio, since Leopard is designed to consolidate dashboardclients into the smallest number possible… But I suspect that the number depends on the number of clients that are running network tasks + 1.
If the DashboardClients threads seem to be taking excessive CPU time, then try reseting Dashboard. The easiest way is to just force quit the Dock. It is not possible to force quit the DashboardClients through the Activity Monitor, you have to terminate the Dock. That will automatically reset Dashboard…. (eg. Terminal –> killall Dock)
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