All my icons have turned brighter?!??

Hello,
All my icons, in Icon view, have become lighter, and I have no idea why. The text below the icons is still the same brightness level, as is the desktop backgrounds, it's only the icons that are lighter. The only icons that have not changed are my hard drive icons.
I have tried recreating the icons (with Pic2Icon and CoocoThumbX) and nothing. I opened a folder of all JPGs and set the view options to show a preview, no difference. When I set to list view, all the icons appear fine (right color, brightness). When I set to column view, icons appear light again, but when I select a file, in the preview, the icon looks fine.
There are also a flurry of .DS_Store files popping up, and my HD has a bunch of new folders, or folders I assume used to be hidden.
The only recent change was I was trying out BchunkerFE, which is a GUI of BinChunker, a utility to convert .bins to .iso. Didn't work, but I'm wondering if that's the issue. Have already dumped the program in the trash.
I imagine there has to be some command line trick to affect all directories view options that's beyond the little GUI view options. Or I'm a moron and missed something stupid obvious. I do photo work and live and die by these thumbs, so any help would be awesome. Any ideas?

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I don't think this will address the brighter icons issue though.
Some general things to try and report back on:
Restart the computer.
Restart the computer into safe mode by holding down the shift key at startup. Are things still wrong?
Restart the computer again normally. If Safe Mode worked are they bad again?
Start the computer in a different account.
Message was edited by: Limnos

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