Applications won't show in dock?

My applications won't show in dock when I'm using them, for example, I'm using imovie and vuze now and they will not appear in dock unlike in Lion. Is this something apple has introduced in mountain lion? They open when I select them from spotlight but they won't show up in dock.
Is there a fix for this?

I had a similar issue and I went to System Preferences > Dock, and I unchecked each check box that appears at the bottom. Then I restarted. Then I check the boxes that I had previously checked. This worked for me, I hope it will for you, too.

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