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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