How can I stop my dock from rearranging the apps by itself?

I just received my iMac from FedEx today and got it all set up, but whenever I try to rearrange the icons on my dock, about 5-10 seconds later they just rearrange themselves randomly or sometimes go back to their previous location before I moved them myself.
I never had these problems with Snow Leopard on my last mac so I'm just wondering if this is a bug or if anybody has a fix for it. I found a suggestion to go to ~Library/Preferences and delete 'com.apple.preferences.plist' but I couldn't find it in that folder or anywhere on my local HD for that matter.
If anyone has any other suggestions it would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Lion hides your Library folder.  You can get to it via the Finder Go menu, Go To Folder, and entering ~/Library or ~/Library/Preferences depending on where you want to go.
As for the dock thing, I realize you have a new system, but have you installed any third party additions at this point?  Or is this still a "pristine", as-shipped version of Lion?
The plist you may want to remove is,
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
i.e., that plist in your home directory Preferences.  Log out and back in after you remove that plist.

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