Customizing icons in Dock: is it true you can't?

Is it really true you can no longer create custom icons for the Dock?
(yes, I get that you can arrange the top icon in that folder in such a way that it shows up as the folder's icon...sort of.)
The Dock's loss of productivity is such that for the first time ever, I'm telling colleagues to not upgrade to Leopard.

I found a solution for this, sort of... The icon in the Dock is only the plain folder, if the folder is empty. Once you put any items in it, the icon of the folder changes to a "stack of icons" with the most visible top item being the first item in the sort order. If the sort order is alpha-numerical, then the top-of-the-stack item is the one the starts with the lowest number. Honestly, I don't know what the interface design folks at Apple were thinking, but here's a way make it look then way you want.
If you want the Dock icon of that special folder (or "stack" as it's called now) to look like the icon you want, here's what I did. (1) Do a Get Info on the special icon folder in Finder. (2) Select the icon in the Get Info window and Copy it. (3) Open that special folder and create a New Folder inside. (4) Do a Get Info on that new folder, click on the icon, and Paste the special icon image so that it looks like the parent folder. (5) Change the new folder's name so the it is first alpha-numerically; I just used "00" (that's two zeros) as the name. (6) Go back up one level to see the parent folder in a Finder window, and drag it to the Dock.
Since the first item in the stack is now the folder with the desired icon, it will appear in the Dock. If fact, the other items will appear to be stacked behind it, which actually looks appropriate. Ultimately, I hope Apple provides an Dock preference option to show the icon of the folder instead showing the stack.

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Hello.
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