Discarded Dock Icons Reappear. Why?

Hi,
I don't use Time Machine (I'm a SuperDuper guy), and I don't need to frequently open my Documents folder, so I've removed both of those icons from my Dock.
The last week or so, however, when I reboot in the morning, those icons keep coming back onto the Dock.
I've cleaned my Dock cache with Cocktail, tossed the Dock prefs (which annoyingly also tossed my Spaces prefs?) and the Dock db file.
Anyone have any ideas what's up here?
Thanks.

I've got a partial answer and a new mystery.
If I remove thecom.apple.dockfixup.plist file from /Library/Preferences, the problem goes away. If I put it back in, the problem returns.
My questions are:
1. Do I need the com.apple.dockfixup.plist file?
2. Since it's exactly the same (size, contents) as the one on my MacBook, I have to feel that the problem's with some other component calling on this file, not the file itself. Does anyone know what component is incorrectly calling this file to fix my dock when it doesn't need fixing?

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