Apple Menu Double Entries

All of a sudden my apple menu has two shutdows two restarts two log outs.
Also now when I click on an icon on my desktop it puts a black bordered box around the icon.
I tried to reapply the MacOSXCombo update but still the same scenario.
Any ideas?

Apple Menu Double Entries
Apparently that's not the only problem.
Your computer seems to be producing double forum entries as well
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=523589&tstart=0

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