Disappearing Address Book icon

Hi folks,
the icon for address book has disappeared from the dock, leaving a blank space - hovering over the space shows that the programme is still there and will open when clicked, but no sign of the icon. Have no idea what to do to get it back (and yes, I tried the on/off panacea!). Any suggestions? Am running latest version (updates up to date) Snow Leopard on a 6 month old MacBook Pro.

John,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
One of the first things to try is restarting your computer.
If that is unsuccessful, try refreshing the Dock plist file. Go to your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences folder, find the com.apple.dock.plist, drag it to your desktop, log out/in, or restart and let us know what happens.
Your dock will revert to default settings, and hopefully once again display the Address Book icon.

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