Ethernet and Airport Interfaces Reversed

I created an image of the new Mac Book Pro(Mid 2010) and slapped it on the new Mac Mini(Mid 2010) and everything worked fine except one thing. I used the DVD that came with the Mac Book Pro(Mid 2010) to create the Master Image.
Under Network Preferences, the Ethernet Interface is displaying the Airport status window(i.e, "Turn Airport On/Off" button is in there). And the Airport Interface is displaying the Ethernet stats.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
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I had the same problem (reversed Ethernet and Airport interfaces) on my 13" MacBook Air after plugging in my Thunderbolt Display. The solution was to go to Network in System Preferences, click the minus symbol under interfaces to delete both of them, click plus to add each one back, then click Apply. Now everything is as it should be.

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