Dock icons gone

After the software update that required me to reload my OS my three web page dock icons are hidden/invisible. Mouse over them and the text appears and they will take you where you want to go, however the icons are not there. Have tried trashing and resetting them to no avail. Ideas?

I have logged out, rebooted, trashed, re linked, and yelled. I then tried to add the folder url.png to my hd/system/library/etc, etc as noted in another fix and still no icon (spring) on dock. So any other ideas. It seems to have be the result of the Lion software update a couple of weeks ago as others are having the same issue..

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This is my first post.
I've been a Mac evangelist since I first started using them in Prepress in 1987.
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riz,
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I am a complete duffer when it comes to Macs - have just switched from a Windows PC.
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That icon was a web site icon for Apple's main site page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/. Simply go to that page, select the page icon just to the left of the 'http' in the URL and then drag it to the Dock next to the Trash can. Voila! You can do the same with any URL.

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