Help I'm broken my dock

[mark88]

While trying to install this flawed new apple keyboard on my Previous generation C2D 20" imac my dock has broken.

The dashboard icon is messed up, I can't right click anywhere on it. I can add icons to it but cannot remove them, when I try to drag an icon off the dock it pauses and then appears to re-launch.

I've deleted the pref files, tried re-installing the combined 10.4 update but still no luck.

Any help please?

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Repair permissions? What kind of install was needed for the keyboard? Not sure why that would effect the Dock, though your dock definitely is broken.

 

[mad jew]

Which preference file(s) did you delete?

 

[Virgil-TB2]

While trying to install this flawed new apple keyboard on my Previous generation C2D 20" imac my dock has broken.

The dashboard icon is messed up, I can't right click anywhere on it. I can add icons to it but cannot remove them, when I try to drag an icon off the dock it pauses and then appears to re-launch.

I've deleted the pref files, tried re-installing the combined 10.4 update but still no luck.

Any help please?

You generally don't have to do this with Macs, but since it only would take a half hour to re-install the OS, and since that would certainly fix it, I would go with that. It looks to me like you deleted something you shouldn't have. If the upgrade pack didn't re-install the missing component, then an OS re-install will.