Hello, seems to be a glitch with an icon on my desktop row at the bottom

Hi. The row at the bottom of the screen that has all of the different icons appears to have a visual glitch for my macbook pro.
When I first got the computer I deleted (dragged an icon away from the row and it poofs away) several unwanted icons. The one all the way on the left which acted as if you had just clicked macintosh hd was poofed away, however when I turn on my computer it has glitched its way to a set location on the screen.
In the bottom near-left edge the icon is sitting there and is not a part of the icon row. In fact when I add a bunch of icons to grow the row the real icons just kind of gow on top of it, as if the smiling face thing was just a normal part of the screen.
Sorry for being hard to decipher and vague but I hope my problem is understood as it is certainly quite bothersome.
Thanks a bunch for any help.

Actually...if you read the original poster's first message carefully...you will see that he or she has managed to get an icon (probably an alias to the Finder) on the desktop BEHIND the dock and doesn't know how to get at it.
So... To solve that problem...
1) Go to the Apple Menu, Select Dock... Then Position on Left.
2) Right on the icon on your desktop (it should stay while your 'icon row' - that's the Dock - has moved to the left side of your screen) and select "Move to Trash". If you don't have an external mouse, press the CTRL key and click; the same menu will appear.
3) Go back to the Apple Menu, Select Dock... Then Position on Bottom.
Problem solved...

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