All icons but safari dim on dock

I have a roommate that gets on my mac that has Snow Leopard and has no clue how to do anything with a mac. Granted, I'm only about 6 mos into learning my mac myself, I finally ditched Windows. Either way, she did something to my dock where all the icons are dim (even folders) but the safari icon is bright. If I open any of the other programs the little light below the icon showing its open is there but the dock icon stays dim. Its almost like they're hidden? Has anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?

I went to take a screen shot to show you guys and changed the background and all the sudden they're all bright again. Any ideas on why it happened?

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