Finder icon missing in dock

Hello,
The icon of finder is missing in the dock, there is still a white dot below what means that finder is still running and I can open it but it annoys me that the icon just dissappeared. I tried a lot of things like deleting the plists from the dock and finder, or open terminal and killall Dock, doesn't work either. I tried to reset my icon with candybar, searched the Core Services map and also I can't find the solution here. Logout and login won't work. I replaced the Finder icon but also that is no option. I want to find a solution without reseting or installing my OS X Lion, because I think there must be something that should work. So if there is anyone who had the problem too or knows a solution that works for real, please tell me!
Already thanks!
Kind regards,
Vincent

Was it candybar that deleted your finder icon?
if so you just drag the custom icon (which is blank for the size you are using it in probably, reference picture) will POOF and your system icon should be restored. THEN you killAll Dock, which candybar does for you.
which version of CandyBar do you have? the latest is the only one that will work effectivly on Lion.
in icon composer, and when you preview an icon, you'll see that it is really a container with multiple images. A reason why your icons are coming up blank might be that the spaces for the the other icon sizes are empty. if you go into Icon Composer, you can drag in the other sizes and save as an ico. Then you'll have a working icon.

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