Applications will not stay in Dock when dragged there

Recently, a few apps will not stay on the Dock once dragged there from Finder>applications. It stays on the Dock for a few seconds, then disappears.
In particular, Word and Time Machine (so far).
Please help!
Blessings

V.K. and Wisello
Thanks to V.K.'s advice above - and it didn't work for me.
However, after a few experiments, I discovered that you MUST uncheck the "Dock Items" box in the MobileMe preferences.
Here is exactly what I did (a revision to thew link V.K. provided above).
1. Open System Preferences and click MobileMe.
2. Click Sync
3. +*Uncheck the "Dock Items" box*+
3. Click the Advanced button-devices & apple computers to be synced will appear
4. Click Reset Sync Data.
5. Click the right arrow button so that the orange arrow "flows" from the computer icon to the MobileMe icon in the window, and the text above the icons says "On MobileMe with sync info from this computer."
6. Wait for the sync to complete. Depending on your Internet connection and on the data you are syncing, it may take several minutes. The status of your sync is indicated at the bottom of the Sync panel.
It worked!!
Thanks to both of you for your input. Great forum.
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