All the menus are coming up as capital A in a box and so are all the icons

All the Menus and icons are coming up as capital A with a square around them.The main tool bar is also this way which includes all the drop down menus.
Need to fix soon. Please help me out on fixing this annoying issue, Thanks, Eric

Hi, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Which version of Mac OS is installed?
How big is the hard drive and how much space remains available on it?
Have you tried repairing permissions?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963?viewlocale=en_US

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