Dock - Application Icons

I haven't been able to find a simillar problem but wondered if anyone could give me some help?
When I open an Application, the icon for that application does not appear in the dock. Could this be a corrupted file or is it just me and they never have displayed in the dock. I am using Spaces and Expose and wondered if that might be the problem.
Thanks in advance

Roger hasn’t responded for a while (maybe went to sleep since it was logged at 4 AM) so I’ll try to help.
You don’t need to delete the .plist files, just move them out of the Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences folder (moving them to the desktop is usually the most convenient). Then for the system to create new .plist files, a restart or log-out/in is usually needed.
The advantage of moving the .plist files to the desktop is that if after the restart it didn’t fix the problem, you can move the old .plist files back to the Preferences folder, replacing the newly created ones, and you will have your old preferences back without needing to restore what you had.

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