Can't rearrange icons in dock

Hi
Ever since I updated to Leopard, I haven't been able to rearrange the icons in the dock. I can still add apps anywhere in the dock, but then once it's in there, I can't move it anywhere else. None of this was happening on Tiger, so I know it's because of updating to Leopard.
Has anyone else had similar problems, and does anyone know how I would go about fixing it?
Thanks
Message was edited by: Steve08

Have you tried deleting the dock's preferences? If not, you might try that, or try doing a permissions repair in the disk utility. If the dock cannot write to its preference file then it will not store where you move things.

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