Change System Icons (How to...)

I use Leo's Icon Archive a lot and I found a nice set to update my OSX with, but I don't know how.
the Blend icon set is this one and all icons come as ICNS file extension, if I copy and replace the icon of my Hard drive using copy paste in the Get Info widown I get this:
just a ICNS file icon instead the actual content of the file.
Can anyone help me on how to change the system icons?
Thank you in advanced.

that worked fine
but it should be a place to change all the icons, instead one by one, to make them the default icons of the system instead of the original ones, just like there is under Microsoft Windows.
ohh well, at least I can spend a while changing my icons to this Blend set.
Thanks joshz

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