Dock has replaced some app icons with question marks

In my case, EndHangingDisconnect (which I hope I'll never need), the beta of QuarkXpress 7 and Palm Desktop. I can add these apps to the dock and launch them thereafter but the question marks remain. What gives and how do I get rid of them?
iMac DV 400; iMac Intel 20" OSX (10.4.4)   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   512MB RAM

I had this with Messenger,i uninstalled messenger as i was just tinkering...then the icon was still in applications,i clicked messenger,the icon appeared in the dock but with a question mark over it...i downloaded messenger again,without closing messenger in the dock.installed it,it ran ok no problem,but the question mark was still over the icon...when i closed and reopened it the question mark had disappeared....have you tried quiting these applics,and then reopened them?

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