If you right-click, control-click, or click-and-hold on the Applications folder in the Dock, can you choose Folder under the Display as heading? That's the solution in Leopard.
That works in SL as well, though when holding/control clicking, you must change the "Display As" to Folder rather than Stack.
And of course, thanks for the tip.
Harv 27" i7 iMac (10.13.6), iPhone Xs Max (12.1)
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