Lost Home Icon

I moved my "home" icon from my hard drive and tried to install it on my dock. I must have done something wrong because when I tried to place my home icon on the dock I was greeted with a puff of smoke (where did my "home" icon go?).
If I select "home" from the "go" menu it will display all of my folders that were located there. How can I put my "home" icon back on my hard drive?
Thanks, in advance for any help
MBP C2D 120ghd 1gig Mac OS X (10.4.9)

It sounds like you removed your home icon from your sidebar. If this is the case then go to the Finder, select the Finder menu > Preferences, click in the Sidebar tab and reenable "Home".
To put your home directory in the dock, go to your home directory, click Command-up arrow (Apple key-up arrow) and this should take up one directory level. So, you should how see an icon of your home directory plus a Shared directory plus any other home directories on the computer. Drag THAT icon to your dock.

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