Home folder has Applications icon in the Dock

When I open the finder, my home directory is depicted with the "Home" icon (looks like a littel house) in the side-bar.
However, when I drag it to the Dock, it instead acquires the Applications icon (looks like the letter A) in the Dock. The net effect is that I have two folders in the Dock that look like Application folders -- very confusing.
Similarly, folders that I have given my own icons to appear properly (as their icons) in the sidebar of the finder, but when I drag them to the Dock, they just appear as blank folders.
Is there a fix or workaround?
I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
Thanks,
-W.

Oof. I see the problem.
I was displaying as Stack, so the icon displayed in the Dock was that of the first item in the folder
When I displayed instead as Folder, it came out right.

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