How do I strip off custom icons?

I am transitioning to Leopard and a lot of my graphics files have custom icons on them to let me see what they contained.
Cover flow takes these custom icons in preference to a real preview and shows a very pixelated version on screen.
How do I strip them off in bulk, and also preferably reset the file type which was stolen by GraphicConverter when I made the custom preview icons?

To remove icons you could try [CocoThumbX|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26136]. It has a mode to delete icons.
CocoThumbX, at least the version I tried, didn't create hires icons - for that I used [FastIcns|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31205]. You can set it up to run in batch mode, which allows you to setup the icon resolution to 512x512.
This worked, and my CoverFlow icons were sharp and crisp.
(One note however: when I used Icon View in the Finder window where I output the hires icons, the window was unbelievably slow (the rest of the Finder was fine). I sent feedback about that to Apple already, but would like to hear if you experience the same issue.

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