My Dock doesn't work

I have seen this on other posts but have yet to read a answer that works on this issue. With my dock hiding I can not use the mouse to view the items on the dock while its hiding. I can restart the machine and it will work for a while but then goes back to not working.
I am on a G5 imac with 1.5 gigs of ram running OS 10.4.4
I have tried deleting the pref files but still does not work.
Thanks for your help!

Hey I was having a similar problem. I'm using a Logitech wireless keyboard & trackball. I love it, but I had to be a little squirlly with it to get it to work. Here's what I wrote in another forum.
After removing the "com.apple.dock.plist" from my User>Library>Preferences> folder and restarting with ONLY the original optical mouse that came with the computer plugged in I tried the dock and other clicking functions. They all worked great!
SO, then I took the batteries out of my logitech track ball but left them in the logitech keyboard and I plugged in the Logitech USB reciever. Immediately, the OS came up with a warning, something like "I don't recongize your keyboard!" and it asked me to push the buttons near my shift keys. So I did and regained full functionality of both the keyboard & optical mouse on the dock and other clicking.
Everything was working great. Of course, my dock doesn't have any of my normal apps in it, but it was working!
Then I shut down again, removing the optical mouse and replacing the battery in my logitech wireless trackman. When I started up again, its all working just fine! The Dock pops up and magnification works and hiding works and the expanding menus at the top work...
I think I'm back to where I was. I'll write more later if I encounter any more problems. I don't know if all the steps above are necessary or even if you have a third party mouse and/or keyboard, but this has worked for me.
Good luck,
-John

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