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For some reason I get the following output from 

var_dump( plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) );

http://local.dev/wp-content/plugins/C:/development/xampp/htdocs/vanilla/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/

in a local install.

Note: I deactivated all plugins and added the line on top of the functions.php file of the default and unmodified TwentyEleven Theme

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Perhaps it's confused because the file isn't in the plug-ins directory? It probably finds the 'relative' path to it to append onto the plugin-url, in this case the 'relative' path is an absolute one, because it couldn't it in the directory (a dodgy fallback...?) – Stephen Harris Feb 10 '12 at 12:31

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There is plugin_basename() call some levels inside which seems to use WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR constants, so my guess would be this function is only meant to be used for things inside plugin directories and not other places like theme.

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So the only chance left is to use get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/path/to/some/file.ext;? – kaiser Feb 10 '12 at 12:48
@kaiser that would be my idea for use in theme. – Rarst♦ Feb 10 '12 at 12:49
Rarst beat me to it - and I totally missed that @Kaiser was calling this from within a Theme. – Chip Bennett Feb 10 '12 at 12:51

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