Dock Gone Missing - Not Reacting

This has now occurred for the second time in the part 5-6 weeks: The Dock suddenly cannot be accessed (normally parked at the bottom, hidden, mag ON).
No matter what you do, there's no Dock as long as Hiding is On. Once it's turned off, the Dock appears and works normally except for the fact that Magnification does not work ... not at all.
In short, no reaction to mouse positioning at the bottom with Hiding on, and no reaction to mouse position in the Dock with Mag on, no size adjust with the mouse cursor, etc.
Both failures, strangely, happened in the same set of conditions:
a) System had been semi-sleeping (idle for a while, screen dark, light steady and not pulsing), and
b) I'd been cleaning gunk out of the Mighty Mouse's roller ball.
Sounds strange, I know, but I checked the notes from the last failure and ..... well, there you are.
The fix is easy enough: Just log out/Restart. Dumping the plist file also works, but I hate rebuilding the Dock after doing that.

When you get the dock working correctly save a copy of the plist somewhere for safe storage. Next time it happens just drag a copy back in to replace the other. Not a fix to prevent but will help to replace.
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