Me too. I just made it as small as possible. It rarely causes trouble. On rare occasions I actually use it. At other times things accidentally go into the dock so I need it there to pull them back.
this is funny-i'm a pc user and i go to neowin.net all the time. If they only heard that mac users are trying to get rid of the dock..they'd go nuts. Every PC user wants a OSX dock on windows more than anything! (including me )