well, no joy. Im wondering if its due to changing the icons to those text version icons but if I recall correctly the first thing I did was attempt to switch the stock dock for one that looks like what HTC sends out. When I did that I had two phone icons layered over each other. One phone was rotated 90* to the other. It was more difficult to see that the other three (browser, apps, and SMS) were doubled.
I guess I can do a LP reset and start over. Im going to get what I want, someday!