Mom used comp....and now the dock won't appear

Hi,
My mom used my scanner/printer recently and when I went onto my comp to use it there was a dialogue box that I couldn't click out of so I restarted it and now the dock won't appear when I hover at the bottom of the screen.
I had a similar problem this summer when I turned of the comp and moved it into another room to find that my desktop wallpaper had disapeared and I still havn't been able to reload it.
Can someone help me figure out what's wrong? Thanks in advance
Imac G4   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Hello wandering:
Try trashing the dock preference file and restarting:
com.apple.dock.plist
Barry

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