There have been plenty of reports of the dock consuming 100% of the CPU following the latest Snow Leopard update, but I have no dock visible at all! I've followed the advice about removing the applications folder from the dock, but this doesn't help either (neither does changing the dock size, or disabling hide or magnify). My CPU usage looks normal. I'm running on a Mac mini with the latest version of Parallels. Has anyone else seen this variation on the problem?