MY DOCK WON'T ACTIVATE

Hi, I went to bed last night with my computer on, everything was fine. My girlfriend used the computer this morning, and everything was fine. But now, I can't activate the dock. I was able to touch the trash, but then it would go away. I pulled the Dock from the pulldown menu but it won't let me do anything. Like clicking APPLE - DOCK just ends there, won't let me do anything else. I can access my programs separately but what's going on with my dock?
I also restarted a few times, and nothing,
THANKS FOR THE HELP

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
Have you verified your Dock settings in System Preferences/Dock?
If settings are as should be, yet still no Dock, check a different user account (make a new admin account for testing). If Dock shows properly, then it is just your user account. In (User Name)/Library/Preferences find the "com.apple.dock.plist", move it to the trash, empty the trash, and restart. A new Dock should appear on restart.
The disappearance of the Dock may indicate possible trouble brewing on the hard drive. It would be prudent to boot to the OS install disc, open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu, and run "Repair Disk" on the hard drive.

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