Dock fails to go away during QT full screen

I've noticed that since installing Snow Leopard my dock will occasionally hang on the screen (I have it on the left right now) when I am entering full screen for, say, a quicktime trailer. The mouse is in the middle of the screen, yet the dock won't go away. Usually the name of the last application I was in will be highlighted like I was hovering over it, but not always.
Sometimes I can take the mouse and run it over the dock to make different application names come up, then move the mouse away and finally the dock will hide itself. I think I've trashed the plist for the dock before in trying to resolve the problem, but I can't remember. Anybody got any ideas?

Thank you. That's what I was looking for:
Right click on the printer utility icon in the dock when you see it still sitting in there. Select "Auto Quit" from the pop up menu. Click on the utility to select it and open its queue window. Manually quit the utility.
After those steps it appears the utility now activates in the dock and then goes away after each print job that finishes normally.
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