Blurry Cover Flow Icons

All of a sudden my icons in cover flow view are blurry. Any ideas how can I fix it? A file by file fix is impractical. I have hundreds of thousands of image files.

the .icns file has the icon image embedded inside of it. the proper way to change the icon of an application is to great a NEW .icns file and replace the one in the package contents of the particular app you're working on. (make sure to back the original up in case you want it later.)
this may be done with various programs. pixadex is one program that can be used to convert .png or .tiff to .icns.
if you have the Developer Tools, there is a new app called IconComposer which can also create the .icns files too.
once you've changed the .icns file inside the application, finder will source that file and consequently change the icon. [sometimes in the past with tiger for example, there could be competition between the cut and paste method and the .icns file method. i haven't explored this yet in leopard.]
as far as iLife, are you using the previous version of iLife? if so, then they are of a lower resolution.

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