My Dock continues to reset on start up.

Whenever I restart my macbook pro, my dock resets to a previous version. All the icon which I have placed are removed and "?" icons for programs I have deleted appear back on the dock.
I just want to beable to log on to my mac WITHOUT having to re setup the dock everytime.

i am having this problem for about the last 4 months. at random intervals of between 1-5 days my dock will revert to default or what it looked like when i installed leopard. nearly always when this happens spaces is disabled also. on some occasions nearly all my system preferences that have the option to display menubar items are reset to unchecked and some 3rd-party menubar items also.
this is on a mac pro and of course i've tried to temporarily or permanently remove any apps and utils i installed around the time this started and i've uninstalled many 'haxie' type apps and removed or changed menubar items. it's so bad i have to keep copies of the dock prefs files so i can replace the new ones that are generated when this happens. i've googled (which led me here) and checked the mac osx hints page and other pages. i'm nearly to the point of considering re-installing the entire os.
because the problem is so random it's just not possible to stay logged into my clean test account long enough for it to recur.
thanks for any tips or help in this matter.
/guy

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