Leopard dock isn't 3-D

I recently upgraded from Tiger to Leopard on my MacBook (2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo), and installed the 10.5.1 update. The dock isn't 3-D - it's flat, just like the Tiger dock was. It appears to have all the other Leopard Dock characteristics, it's just . . . flat.
Any idea what might be going on? I looked in the CoreServices folder, and it shows that Dock.app is version 1.6.
I don't really have any preference as to which dock I use. I'm wondering if this indicates there's a problem that's going to become a major issue at some point in the future.
Thanks in advance.
Dick

Open up the terminal and type in this command and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
Then type and hit enter:
killall Dock
In a second or so the dock should reappear in 3d.

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