dock disappeared, no desktop preferences and cant shut down

[ragekage]

I'm having a total nightmare here. I tried to set a desktop background image by right clicking in the browser but something happened and it froze momentarily.

No my dock has disappeared and won't show again despite numerous restarts... and when trying to restart it seems to freeze and I have to do a hard shut down and restart that way. I tried using the disk repair on the OSX install CD and that finished successfully but still these problems persist.

I tried removing the dock preferences file but that didn't help. I've also deleted the image that I wanted to set my desktop too but that hasn't helped either.

Any help on this would be fantastic.

KJ

 

[ragekage]

This is bizarre. I've never come across a bug so stupid, even during my Windows days.

I thought to myself, well, lets go through the process again that cause this issue. I went to a web page, right clicked a random image and set it to the background image. As soon as I did that my desktop changed and my dock reappeared.

Ah well.