Icons not staying on the dock

HI,
Yesterday, I picked up my phone, took it out of sleep mode and my dock on the bottom of the screen was empty. All of the icons I keep there were on the main app pages. I try to drag the icons back to there but they wont dock to the dock.
Anyone else having this issue or can tell me how to fix it? They all still work, I just have a plain grey dock at the bottom of the screen and can't get the icons to dock on there anymore.

Just today for no apparent reason, when i launch an application from the dock - the icon bounces and disappears.
The name above remains and the space functions as an icon, but no visible icon.
Dragging it out and dragging it in from my apps folder doesn't work - stays the same.
This isn't affecting all icons but is affecting FCP, but not the rest of FCS and has affected Safari, Mail, Firefox and Juicer3.
Bit annoying really.

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ed-n-burra wrote:
Two days ago I noticed that both Safari & Mail icons were not in the dock. I opened applications and returned them, they just vanish, when I open them from apps they both work OK.
I have worked round the problem by using an alias and placing that in the dock. Any way I can get back to were I was?
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Forgive me if you knew this, because I can't tell from your description if this is relevant or not: Normally, application icons will appear in the Dock when the application is running and disappear from the Dock when you quit the application, unless you have set the application icon to stay in the Dock via the above method or by dragging the application file to the Dock. (Dragging the icon out of the Dock will have the reverse effect, the same as choosing "Remove from Dock," and I'm thinking that might be what happened that caused your icons to disappear from the Dock after quitting.) Creating an alias of the application and placing that in the Dock is a workaround, but shouldn't be necessary.
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