Some dock icons appearing with question marks

I backed up my hard drive, erased it, transferred backup to hard disk, and have had a few problems since. Today, the fourth time I turned on the computer since doing all this, startup produced ? for 6 dock icons: firefox, microsoft word and excel, appleworks, etc.
Please help!
imac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Karen --
Take the icons in the dock (one at a time) and quickly drag them to the desktop. You should hear a "poof" sound, and the icon will disappear.
Then go back to your Applications folder and take the icon from Applications and drag it on to the dock.
Hopefully that will work for you.

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