I have blue screen & no dock appears

When i start up my macbook pro 10.6.8, the screen is blue and the dock can't be found.
Iam able to get Safari on top of sreen & it functions. All other apps are out.
Thanks in adance,
alf10513

Run through this fix it list from the top down
Step by Step to fix your Mac
It sounds like your problem is located in that one particular account, could be bad user account permissions, corrupt caches or some sort of Library folder corruption.
It's times like this it's good to have another bare bones Admin account on the machine because that will allow one to access the files of the other and transfer them off.
If your getting to the point in the Steps that it's possible that data destruction will occur, and you don't have a recent backup of your files off the machine, then you can install OS X on a external drive and recover them.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Please update your signature to relect your running 10.6.8, and review your backup options, especially with 10.6.8
Most commonly used backup methods
There is tons of good into here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents
Tell me how it goes and what you have done and seen.

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