Can I lock items in my Dock?

My 4 year old daughter has a great game of dragging things out of my dock and watching the puff of smoke!!!.. great fun for her but a real pain for me!
With Tiger I used Transparent dock which had a check box that allowed you to lock the items in the dock.
Is there a way to do this on Leopard? If not then I think it would be a very useful feature!
Thanks!
Steve.

to lock the dock run the following commands from the terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool true
killall Dock
Make sure you press enter after "killall Dock"
To unlock it change "true" to "false" in the above. Also, I believe Onyx http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html
provides a UI way to do it if you are uncomfortable with using the terminal.

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