Apple - PLEASE fix the graphical bug with Dock and Stacks! PLEASE!

Using popular Mac games such as Diablo II, Freeverse's Wingnuts, Ambrosia's Aperion, and Blitwise's Super DX-Ball (as well as a LOT more) results in a common graphical glitch with the Dock and stacks, making fan stacks totally useless until I restart my iMac. Killing and relaunching the Dock doesn't fix it. Only restarting my Mac temporarily sorts it out. This is a highly annoying bug most often set off by games that Apple STILL hasn't fixed as of 10.5.3. So I let every developer (who I do not blame, BTW) know whose product results in this bug, in the hope they will apply pressure to Apple. Leopard has been the buggiest release since 10.1 IME and Apple is taking there sweet time about crushing such crippling bugs. Suffice to say it's really ******* me off.
Here is a screenshot from another 24" iMac afflicted by this bug after running a game:
<http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5324/corrupteddockandmenuletpk1.png>
Notice the open stack is just grey bars. The icons and names are not
showing.
Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet

Hi Wizardling
These forums are User to User technical forums Apple employees do not often read these forums. You can do 1 of two things.
1. Send feedback to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback or
2. Sign up for a free developer account and open a bug report with Apple through http://bugreporter.apple.com
Hope this helps
J.C

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