Black MacBook showing up white in Finder.

Hello all, I've had a Mac for a little over a year now, so obviously I've only gotten to use Leopard, and I'm uncertain about Tiger, Panther, etc. But whenever I have my computer shown in the sidebar in the Finder, my Black MacBook always shows up as White, and I don't really understand why. No one in my immediate family uses a Mac, so I can't test to see if it shows up Black or White in their Finder.
This is one of those annoyances that you know is really small, but it just bugs you. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Steve
PS - I know that the Finder has hi-res icons (512x512) located at /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle
Right-click on the bundle and select "Show Package Contents". There's actually a lot of really slick hi-res icons to be found here.
What I'm getting at is I can see all of the Apple portables over the years (including a black MacBook and a white MacBook.) I know it's there but it's not showing the right icon for my computer.

Could be the codes read by that piece of software do not necessarily distinguish between the black and white models - which is only a cosmetic difference. On my various systems the icon for a given item is not even always the same - right now on my main MacBook my USB disk attached to the Airport Extreme router looks like an iMac while the same view from my wife's PowerBook it looks at it should (like a router). If it works I wouldn't worry about it - but you could try a cache cleaner utility to see if that makes any difference - or if you know for such which icon file is being used - copy the black icon file and rename it to take the place of the white icon file.

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