Dock not showing up on right side on startup

I am opening a new question on this topic because the thread by nickbailey looks like it will be closed soon. I appear to be having the same issues as reported in his thread, but I have not been able to resolve them.
I keep my dock on the right side. About every 3rd time I boot OS X, the dock does not launch. I can successfully move it to the bottom or left, but not the right. A reboot resolves it.
I have one 23" cinema display attached to my Mac Pro. To date, I've tried trashing the dock pref file. That did not help. I've looked through the Display prefs and do not see any settings for a 2nd display. I also did not see any display pref files that I could trash.
Does it matter which DVI port I plug the display into?
Any other things I can try?
Thanks,
Joe
Mac Pro (Base Config) Mac OS X (10.4.8) 23" Cinema Display
Mac Pro (Base Config) Mac OS X (10.4.8) 23" Cinema Display

The picture is becoming more clear...
When I booted up tonight, the dock was gone again. This time, before rebooting, I went into Display prefs and, sure enough, it thought I had two displays. When I clicked on the Detect Displays button, it realized that I only had one display and everything went back to normal.
So now the question becomes...
Why does OS X occasionally think I have two displays?
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