Finder Icon in Dock has strange purple color

After booting into Snow Leopard the first time, all the icons in my dock had a strange purple hue. After replacing all these icons they now look OK.
Except for the Finder icon itself. Since I cannot replace it it is stuck in this ugly purple color. Does anyone know of a way to change it, reset it or otherwise fix it?
Thanks,
-- Paul

Login to another User account. Does it do it there? If not, try trashing your Dock preferences in your main User account.
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