Help, I lost my @springboard in the dock to the right next to the trash.

I know this sounds silly but I seemed to have moved that little spring with an @ on it on accident and it just disappeared in a puff of pixel smoke?!....funny how they do that uhh. And now I can't find it anywhere on my Mac? Do I have to reinstall X Tiger? Please help I miss that little guy....heh heh. Thank You
Powerbook G4 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8) Wacom Intuos3

As I explained above, it is just the icon that the Dock uses to indicate that you have an URL address in the Dock. Grab the "favicon" at the front of the address of any page you have open in your browser and drag it to the Dock. If you want the one that takes you directly to the Apple home page, click here:
http://www.apple.com/
Then click and hold on wee little icon and drag to the Dock. You'll have the spring icon, and clicking on it takes you to the page.
You can have pritnear anything you want in your Dock, and remove almost anything except the Finder, the Trash, and an application that is running. If you want to remove something, just drag it off. If you want to add something just drag it on.
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