Dock has disappeared after reboot

rebooted imac because it was slow, now the dock has disappeared.
Re-rebooted, but still no dock. Can't reposition it or anything in dock pref. help

macbook pro, Mac OSX Leopard: I had exactly the same problem, and neither of the suggestions above does anything. A power shutdown shuts down of course, but again the spinning wheel and no dock. This first happened after the latest Mac OS X security update installed June 27 I believe. Immediately after the update the system had this problem; then worked for a few times; and now it is back with spinning disk/no dock, and every time I try to power off and on again it reappears.
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