Apps in dock

there dont sat in the dock when add them....ever since i updated to lion this has been happening.....i gotta add the again and again after each restart...

It will return your Dock to its default status. When you make changes (such as adding new icons), those changes get recorded in that file. You're reporting that the changes aren't being recognised, so I'm suggesting that the plist file is corrupt.
When you delete this file and restart your Mac, OS X makes a new default copy of it.
However, you can insure yourself against any unexpected behaviour by first making a copy of this file and saving it on your desktop (or anywhere else that's convenient).
Then delete the original in the Preferences folder and restart. If, after the restart, anything unexpected occurs or you want to restore things back to the way they were, just copy the file you saved on the desktop back to the Preferences folder (you will get a warning telling you that the file already exists and do you want to replace it. You say 'Yes').

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