How can I use installed applications that just keep bumping on my dock?

Hi,
I have an earlier 13'' 2011 Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion up to date. Everything works fine except for 2 different things:
1st- The Apps problem:
Well, I installed and used dropbox for a long time but someday, for no reason I can discover, it became a normal folder and the dropbox app icon was no more on my menu bar.
I tried opening, reeinstalling, everything.Now, even having it installed, I start the app and it doesn't show up, not even the icon nor the folder, but in the activity monitor, "she's" there. How can I solve this?
Another problem was the Skype App, that one I never came to use in this MacBook because I install it and then everytime I try to run it it simply bumps on my dock and stays bumping as long as the computer's on, so..no skype, ever (a headache I must say).
The same happened to vlc, that bumps too (and nothing more) and flutter, that doens't open too.
2nd- The so much talked ML battery issues that I honestly can't solve and really annoy me:
I heard a lot about the Mountain Lion battery issues but after hearing it was solved with some upgrade I went for it.
I must say I regret it many times because the battery life droped from 8h (7,5h wireless and one or two apps opened) to 2 hours (TWO!).
I was in panic until I found what I thought beign the solution, some "killall" command for the terminal that removed the desktop background, which in fact made the battery return to 5,5 to 7,5 hours with wirelless on.It worked for a few days and then it came back to normal. I continued doing it very regularly to keep the battery running fine but it started making no difference, so, crappy battery life now (the curious thing is when I leave it unplugged and turned off for a night, he wakes up with the good battery life again, but one on each 3 times maybe)
Hope you can help me!
Kind regards

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