Help - Disappearing dock icon

Here is a strange one. A friend of mine has a MacBook w/Leopard and his iCal icon disappears from the doc when he closes the program. The date remains. The rest on the icon is gone. What can we do to fix this?

I've tried everyones suggestions with no solution... I did copy my iCal app from my other Mac running Leopard to my MacBook Pro and the deleted the caches/plist/etc. This fixed the calendar appts not showing up without navigating and the buttoms are now drawn in iCal and preferences (They werent prior).
Just need my Dock Icon fixed - drives me nuts!!

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