File Icons changed in Mavericks. How do I change them back?

I am on a MacBook Pro and, since upgrading to Mavericks, the file icons in the finder have become generic grey icons with the file extension on them. I can no longer see the Word files with little blue icons, Excel file icons with little green icons etc. Weirdly, I can still see the colored file icons in Coverflow view and in List view, but not in Columns and Icons. I can also see the colored file icons when selecting a file to attach to an email. In the file information window (clicking command I when a file is highlighted) the icon in the top left corner is the colored file icon.

Well this solution did not work for the Icon View.  All the other views show the correct icon (and might have before I changed all view types in Get Info > File Options > Uncheck Show Icon Preview
This worked for fixing the Icon View for me.  Pages and Numbers files were fine but not my FileMaker files or Word or Excel (and maybe more).  I opened Get Info on one FileMaker document.  Just below the Red Yellow Green dots at the top is a tiny icon to the left of the file name.  Left click on the icon which looks basically white).  You will see a thin blue line around the icon.  Go up to the Menu Bar (File Edit View etc) and click on Edit then copy.  Then go to the same icon you just copied on the Get Info window and left click then do Edit again from the Menu Bar and Paste.  You can also use the shortcuts cmmand c or command v to copy and paste.  For some magical reason coping a white icon pasted the correct preview to the icon. 
Every single icon of programs that won't display icons properly will have to be fixed this way.  I was thinking about using search for file type and grinding it out like orcs or wargs in Lord of the Rings Online.  Apple this isn't a good way to make me have Determination.

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