At last I can be rid of that dam thing, when I first got OSX I didn't mind the dock but it got more & more annoying, always getting in the way & popping up at the worst possible moment. I used Onyx to hide it under the top menubar but it still managed to rear it's ugly head now & then just to taunt me! I now use DragThing or FruitMenu, both work well, the latter being more
of a sexed-up Apple Menu if you like the OS9 vibe, or DragThing being exactly what the OSX dock SHOULD have been but never was.