Dock magnification problem

I have my Dock set to magnify the icons when the mouse rolls over them. Problem is, it eventually stops working, and just won't magnify until I restart my Mac. The settings do not change - they remain with the same magnification setting: "On", and about "70%".
I'm not sure how to fix this or why it is even doing this. I already tried deleting that one file: "com.apple.dock.plist", and it didn't help.

My husband and I have two new MacBookPros on 9/1/07, identical, and both have dock magnification problems. We'll be working and suddenly the dock becomes huge, like a million times larger, and great shadows appear to move over our screens, then it freezes, we have to force quit at power button. Happens all the time when we have magnification on small, med or large. We've got about 20 apps down on the dock, we've taken some off, thinking 20 was too many. What's is going on

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