Finder icons for TextEdit documents

Hello,
I have set Word documents (.doc) to open with TextEdit by default. Since doing this, all my Word documents now have blank icons in Finder.
By contrast, when I select Word documents to open with AbiWord or NeoOffice, the files get the AbiWord (or NeoOffice) icons in Finder.
Why don't they get the TextEdit icons?
Thanks,
Apurva
PS: When I select Word documents to open with AppleWorks, they get a blank icon and NOT the AppleWorks icon. Whats the matter with these Apple applications?
Apple iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

Whats the matter with these Apple applications?
They just haven't bothered to set a default icon in the programme for that document type. I'm sure you could come up with all sorts of guesses why Apple might not want to slap their own icon on Microsoft's file type - who knows the real reason...
Anyway, you can add one yourself, if you are so inclined.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040809000710242

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