My Dock Disappeared..Help pls...

my dock has disappeared. its not on hiding.. i accidentally went to system>Library>core service> dock>open content> deleted that and replaced it with a new dock. then when to terminal killall Dock. now it wont show the dock...

If you have another mac that is running 10.5.4 as well, copy the regular files of the dock to your MacBook.

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I've had my macbook 10.4 11 for a few years now since i started college in 2006. And all of a sudden these past few days, the finder window starts flashing..not flashing completely on & off, but like blinking & so does all the icons on my desktop. They all flash at the same time as soon as my laptop is rebooted. And now all of a sudden last night, the dock disappears. I was backtracking and kind of figured out that these problems started occuring as soon as I download the "recommended updates". Never has my mac acted up like this. But as soon as i download the updates...now the finder is flashing & the dock has disappeared. Please anybody i need help to fix this. I'm in the entertainment industry & I have alot of important projects, files on here. Will those be damaged?? And how can I fix this problem A.S.A.P?? I cant even access safari now to go to the net, because my safari icon is located on the dock. And my icons flash on the screen, so i couldnt click on even if i tried. How can i get the dock back? And for the finder window to stop flashing?
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I'm not sure if that'll help. I was reading through & it says to stop it you have to go to "system preferences". I can't access that right now, because my dock disappeared last night. And thats where the icon is for my system preferences. I cant click on the apple thing at the top either because my screen blinks. It blinks so fast that you dont have time to click on an icon cause it switches. Say if i opened a window..for example like Itunes or something. My screen goes crazy. The windows will flash back and forth "Itunes, finder, itunes, finder, etc.." their doing this so fast that i cant access anything. And now the dock is disappeared. Which makes matters even worse lol all my icons are in dock. I can almost work my way around with the flashing. But *i cant work around a missing dock. Without a dock, i cant access ANYTHING. _ALL MY ICON ARE IN THE DOCK._* :/ If anybody knows how to restore the dock to come back. Please let me know. Once i get that back, then we can work on fixing the flashing finder.
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4 questions: at login black rectangular box, appears and speaks- 2 annoying black box over text- 3 bluetooth doesnt always pick up keyboard/mouse at login- 4 dock disappears and reappears at will

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1) at login a black rectangular box with white text appears and voice over seems to be on (even though its switched off)
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