Fresh Leopard Installation on PowerPC, Dock is GONE. HELP!

I just installed a fresh copy of Leopard on a G5 iMac and the dock is gone. I tried the plist trick and also tried a third party dock software that had a "Restore to Apple Defaults" and it's not working. I need my dock, please help!

Please ignore.. I just ran the updates and everything is back to normal.

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