Cannot save changes to dock after upgrade to Mavericks

As the subject line states, I can't make any changes to my dock (removing or adding apps/icons) stick beyond a restart.
Based on suggestions on the net, I've tried a few things:
1. Look for and delete com.apple.Dock.plist in ~/Library/Preferences. Didn't work because the plist doesn't exist on my machine, not in that location or anywhere else. defaults read com.apple.Dock returns Domain com.apple.Dock does not exist.
2. Noticed that when I do make a change to the dock that ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*.db changes. I deleted those, restarted, checked permissions (current user - me - has r+w access), made changes, and restarted again.
So far, no luck. Any other suggestions?

On another hint, I used TinkerTool to change a random dock setting, relaunched dock, and then unchecked the setting, and apps are now persistent past restart.  Also, the com.apple.Dock domain appears to be properly registered with OS X.

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