Only Force Quit available in the dock

Recently, the behaviour of my dock has become somewhat funky. The first problem is that when I Control-Click on any application, I get the Application not responding menu, meaning I can't Quit the app, just force quit it. This is true for any application, although when I click on it, it works just fine. Another problem is that the application icons never change - the mail icon doesn't show new messages, Adium doesn't reflect my status. The last thing I noticed is that screen corners don't work anymore for expose functions.
I have tried trashing the dock preference file and realunching the finder, but no success.
Any ideas would of course be greatly appreciated. I wanna see the little number on my mail icon again!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Problem update: reinstalling 10.4.7, this time as a combo update, did the trick - I guess the dock got corrupted and had to be replaced.
Anyway, thanks to the 8 people that read my post ...

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this then causes me to do a hard shutdown to resolve the issue.
I am running safari 3 with latest version of webkit, but i didnt think this was an issue. And also, its not just safari.
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