My dock the icons keep disappearing

am running leopard 10.5.3 and my dock keeps doing this it was doing it before but it seems it been doing a lot more often since 10.5.3 like is no big deal but a simple reboot fixes it but why does it do this and also the grey shiny part of my dock also changes the color of my background
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Hey there, I'm new to the discussion board. And my apologies for sounding computer illiterate. I just installed Leopard on my PowerBook G4 and I have started having problems with my dock. The auto hide and show dock preference doesn't work and when I scroll over the icons the names don't pop up and nothing gets highlighted. Same thing goes for scrolling over my menu bar and over my bookmarks on the bookmark bar. Just looking for some help, please. I've tried all sorts of things, including the "killall Dock" command in the Terminal. But to no avail.
Any ideas?

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