Dock application Fan appears but thumbnails and app names are blank

Something strange has happened on my Dock. I grouped all the iLife apps by creating a new folder and moving links to the iLife apps into it. It works fine.
Then I dragged this folder to the dock to make a fan of iLife apps. It simplifies my Dock. This worked fine for a while.
Recently, the fan has come up with blank thumbnails and blank app names. Mousing on the blank entries starts the app, just as before. But of course it now I don't know what i am launching. When I reboot, the fan shows all just as I wanted -- for a while. The it blanks out again.
what is going on? I want to fix this.

It appears to be a common problem. A restart will get it working again for awhile. See for instance this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6258469
There are many others along the same lines.
Francine
Francine
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