Boom - out goes the hard drive

After preaching today about the necessity of backups and bootable drive clones I came home to finish some system cleanup and moving some files around on my new (larger) backup drive.
I decided to do a clone of my boot drive first (with CCC) since it's been a while since I did one. After doing the clone I went to Disk Utility and did a Verify Disk on both the cloned drive and my original MacHD disk. My primary disk failed the verify, and since I can't repair the boot drive I rebooted to my new cloned drive.
Wouldn't you know - after rebooting, and then finding that even DiskWarrior was reporting it couldn't deal with the drive, the directory structure was completely corrupted and boom - all data was gone after the DiskWarrior repair.
What a timing, huh. Wow, another day and this would have been much more painful...
So, I'm currently in the process of reformatting the main drive, and will clone the drive back when it's done and verified.
But I do have a question. Since I'm running off the cloned drive right now I see that many of my file icons have changed (MS Word files for instance look like a very old icon, not what they were when booted to the main drive) and all of my Apps, except for Apple apps, in the Dock no longer work. I assume this may be due to paths being different in the properties somewhere (my old disk was MacHD and the new one is MacHD2) and that will be corrected once the main drive is rebuilt.
Does that sound right?
Thanks,
-n

Okay, answering my own post...
So, the file icons were in fact resolved after the primary disk was restored from the clone.
But, the broken Dock icons were not, so I had to remove them and drag new ones there. Not a big deal, but seems odd to me why it was only some apps.
For what it's worth, this was a great disaster recovery test. I basically had a full disk crash with complete loss of boot drive and data, and I was back up and running with a clean system and all data restored within 5 hours. Gotta love it.
-n

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