Disappearing Icons in the Dock on Restart

When I restart my computer, the icons in my dock rearrange and two in particular disappear. The same ones disappear each time. HELP!

Removing the com.apple.dock.plist and restarting solved the problem for me too. My problem was that my 'Preview' icon on my Dock became invisible; there was a space where it used to be, and clicking in the space still opened Preview, but you couldn't see it. After doing the procedure above, it brought back the Dock like it was on the original install of Snow Leopard. I just had to drag some applications to the Dock again to make it like it was. And when I dragged Preview to the Dock, it finally appeared! (I had tried repairing the disc from the OS X install disc, etc. and nothing worked before this.) Thanks again soooo much!

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