After a Software Update My Dock Doesn't Show Up

We just did a Software Update and the most of the time the dock does not show up and the computer runs very sluggish.  If I create a new user the dock comes up fine and computer runs flawlessly.  It's almost like something go corrupted.  I ran a Verify Permissions and a Repair Permissions and that didn't seem to help.  The repair took about 8 hours when most of the time on other machines it takes 30-40 minutes.  After the repair the computer was no better.

Delete the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist
Log out and back in.
~ is your user directory
Regards,
Captfred

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