After upgrading to 10.6.8 dock icons can't be changed

I'm running a Macbook Pro with 2.5Ghz Intel Core Duo with 4Gb memory. I recently upgraded from 10.5.x to 10.6.8, updating other software at the same time. Now I find that it won't retain any new icons I add to my dock. For awhile it kept bringing back deleted ?'s in place of software I removed. That has stopped, but neither dragging the icon into the dock or starting the app and clicking "options>keep in dock" will work. After a restart they will be gone again, along with icons I have removed while still keeping the software. Is there a fix for this?

Open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run:
defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool false;killall Dock
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