Blank/Swapped Icons

My sister is having a problem with her iBook that I have also had on my Powermac G4 and on her iMac. In OS X, sometimes the icons will not display properly. For example, word documents will show up with the powerpoint icon. When the computer is woken from sleep, the icons all change again, so that the word documents might feature a safari icon. It's as though the icons are playing musical chairs. Sometimes, rather than the icons all swapping files, they will simply vanish. The files will be there, and can still be opened by double-clicking their names, but there is no icon. It's as if all normal icons were replaced by a transparent icon.
This is a frustrating issue. It seemed to come and go for me, and went away on its own. It also went away on it's on from the iMac. However, it's been on the iBook for a while now and my sister is getting quite frustrated. She's talking about selling her soul to satan in the form of buying a peecee.
Suggestions? She doesn't want to format.
Thanks in advance.

She has 10.3.9. I haven't had this problem in a long time so I suspect it was fixed in 10.4. I'm just going to get her to upgrade. Stupid to have to do that though.
Apparently her applications folder now features a powerpoint icon.

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