My dock restores itself to just the finder and trash icons!?

Hi,
Lately my dock has been resetting itself to only showing the Finder and Trash icons....this is getting really annoying. Sometimes it will show all the icons then ill restart my computer and then it will only show the two! Any ideas how to fix this?
Any help will be appreciated!!!

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Interesting to note that at one time (I don't remember if I was upgrading from 9 to 10 or it was a 10 upgrade) but the Finder on the old Mac also disappeared. I was on forums and seemed to be a problem that many people had. For me, the only thing that seemed to work was opening Activity Monitor and force quitting Window Server and after that the finder and desktop icon showed up. So I'm thinking it must be a program or file I have on the old computer. So, I thought I'd try downloading 10.10 figuring if I reinstalled I would get where back to an "out of the box" computer.
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Re-install the OS.
Do a backup. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option/alt key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Then re-install the OS.
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Clean install.
Do a backup. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option/alt key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Reformat the drive using Disk Utility/Erase Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then click the Option button and select GUID. Then re-install the OS.
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No finder and trash icon

I tried to modify my dock using leopard docks and when I changed it, I lost my finder and trash icon, there is a blank space and when I roll my mouse over it, it shows the name, but not the icon.
And I can`t even get the right-click pop-up menu which I usually get by right-clicking or command+click on my mac.
Please help...

Yes I am running
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
And I even checked the roaring apps website, and the Leopard docks app is compatible with my OS.
I just noticed that there is no full screen icon on the top right. (The icon wich you can toggle full screen with)
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It would appear to me you have identified the cause of the problem. What is +"candy bar"+ anyhow?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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I just noticed that I can no longer select photos out of my finder that are located in my Aperture/Iphoto Library. I used to be able to attach photos to my gmail out of the aperture library in the finder and for some reason, no longer can.
I can't access these images except to go into the applications.
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As it is, I only have 50gb left on my imac, and the aperture library is 150gb. Also, I have over 10k images in both libraries combined and there are tons of duplicates that need to be sorted, and hopefully not messed up because I've organized most of them.
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-live happily ever after
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Referenced - relocate your Masters first.
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FIle -> Import -> iPhoto Library? Have you done this already? If so are you trying to move the Masters to Aperture from an iPhoto Library? Or Consolidate them?
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You can't. Every photo is in a Project. They’re the basic building blocks of the Library.
You might want to spend a little time with the manual or the video tutorials. I'm not sure you've grasped the app you've purchased.
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There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto/ APerture: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics. This is what you use to attach your shot to your GMail
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If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto/ Aperture not running:
For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the Library from your Services Menu.
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My dock restores itself to just the finder and trash icons!?

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