ya so i installed summerboard (do i actually need this?) and it said restart the touch for the effects to take place so i did and now the dock got moved to the top. How do i fix this?
You installed the incompatible version. Uninstall it from the Installer.app to get it back to normal. If you still want SummerBoard, a new version that does work can be found at: http://www.apptapp.com/summerboard/, you will have to install it manually though.
There are probably other apps that can do it, but SummerBoard is the most popular. You could also do it manually by SFTPing into it and then changing the picture icons yourself, but that's a bit more complicated.