Dock icons wrong?

Hi -
I'm not sure but I think that some of the icons in my Dock are not correct. My Applications folder icon looks identical to the Address Book icon (brown book with the "@" symbol). I also have a folder in my Dock that has a custom icon when I view it in a Finder window but it appears as a plain folder in the Dock. Does this sound correct or is something mysterious afoot? Thanks in advance!

Control-click each icon and choose to display it as a folder. If it is set to display as a stack, the icon will be that of the most recently modified item in that folder.
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drdocument wrote:
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