[PCKid]

Dock is not opening on boot up. OS X 10.5.2. If I log off and then straight on again it pops up ok. But I have to do it all the time now.

[rab777hp]

what does this have to do with windows on Mac?

Also, try upgrading to 10.5.4

[PCKid]

Ooops. sorry wrong discussion area. I am on 10.5.4. Also fixed it by deleting the dock plist file. It's done it twice now and I think it does have something to do with Windows after all. It only has done it after rebooting from Windows via boot camp. Don't go to Windows very often on my iMac but now I realise that both times I have is when it corrupts the Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist file. So whilst it's not really Vista that's doing it it appears that it may be Boot Camp doing it.

[mdawson]

In actually it could not be Windows as 1) Windows does not recognize HFS+ volumes let alone read or write to them and 2) even if it did recognize your Mac volume, it would not be able to alter OS X system files. Boot Camp may be the culprit, but there is no reason for that feature to even access, let alone alter OS X GUI preference files, when its sole purpose is to permit a Windows volume to be accepted by the hardware as a valid boot volume, so it is a long shot.

It sounds as if you have a problem that you may need to report to Apple if no one else has experienced a similar problem.