Tiger reverts to orginal dock and settings after restart

Every once in awhile Tiger reverts the dock and all my icons back to the original sizes and items. It also makes the icons the default size and bugs the crap out of me. What the heck is going on?

The dock reverts when I have to force restart it (by holding the
power button for 5 seconds.) So...
A hard computer shut down or restart is not good for a hard drive under any platform and having to do so with OS X should be rare. I can't remember the last time I was forced to perform a hard shut down or restart with my PB.
As a first step, I suggest Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption for system troubleshooting procedures and when doing so, follow all steps/instructions in the order provided.

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