I've lost my downloads stack from the dock, can I reinstate it?

Not long after buying my lovely new Mac desktop, I somehow managed to remove the downloads stack from the dock and I'd like to reinstate it.  I've also noticed I have lots of things in the dock that I never use (the guitar thing GarageBand for instance!) but am loathe to lift this into the trash in case I lose it forever and, who knows, maybe I might want to play with it sometime? (when I'm more confident!) 
I've just stumbled upon this site and it looks brilliant, so any help would be great.  Also, I don't know what OS I've got - how could I discover that (the computer is almost a year old)?  And is there a tutorial on the Finder, which looks like it must be very useful, but I've no idea what for! 
Thanks from an Ageing Mac Virgin!

items in the dock are just aliases. removing them from the dock won't delete the actual application. right-click on an item in the dock and choose options > remove from dock or just drag them off.
as for your downloads folder, open a finder window and click on the house icon with your name next to it. find the downloads folder and drag it to the right of the divider line in the dock.
you can find out which OS you're running by clicking on the  icon in the menu bar and selecting about this Mac.
the finder is for the Mac what windows explorer is for that other OS:
Mac 101: The Finder
Mac OS X v10.6: Mac 101 - Finder and the desktop

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