Dock not Accessible After Switching Back from Parallels in a Space

I usually run my Mac stuff in one Space and then have Parallels (5584) assigned to a second Space running in full screen mode. This usually works just fine, but occasionally when returning to the Mac space my Dock, which I have configured to auto-hide is not accessible. The only way I can get the Dock back is to log off then back on.

I've tried to change Dock settings, i.e. turn hiding off, but the setting will not toggle to something other than it is currently set to.

Not sure if this is a Parallels problem or a OS X problem.

OS X 10.5.2. MacBook Pro.

Anybody else having this problem and know of a work around?

 

this forum is somewhat dead but here goes: how do i get the dock to show up on the full screen parallels (v3) when it is assigned to its own space? i have the dock set on autohide. it works fine without autohide (dock shows on fullscreen) but i dont like to have it this way.