Dock stops unhiding (for the umpteenth time)

Maybe this is a rhetorical question, but why does my dock stop unhiding at least once a day. My only recourse has been to turn hiding off and use up valuable screen territory or restart and waste valuable time. I know many other people have this same problem. After 11 iterations of Tiger, is there some reason certain software engineers can't fix this little problem? These kind of persistent annoyances which never seem to be addressed don't inspire a lot of confidence or do much to maintain brand loyalty...

In system preferences, deselect the "automatically hide and show the dock" box.
Now, back on your desktop, command/option/d will toggle the dock on and off; it shouldn't disappear or return on its own.
I'm using Leopard, but this worked in Tiger for me, and even earlier, I believe.

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