Changing the guest account icon?

Hi, I let some friends of mine use my computer, so I let them go on the guest account. They decided to do a prank and made the account icon for the guest something quite unpleasant. I don't want to remove the guest account, but at the same time I really don't want that icon to be there. I have no idea what they did and System Preferences/Accounts lets me change my (administrator) account's icon, but the guest icon is just an unmodifiable silhouette.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

See if this thread helps:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8523755
Matt

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