Finder icons not displaying or not displaying properly

I'm having a problem where icons in finder such as word documents pdfs and the main volume of my hard drive are not displaying at all or are not displaying correctly. One .rtf file I saved on my desktop had the same icon as a jpeg I had saved on the desktop too.
Anybody have any idea of what I can do about this?

Create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the behavior persists. If so, it's system-wide and reinstalling the COMBO updater is advisable. You might consider going to 10.4.10, but with the usual caveat of backing up your current boot volume to a bootable backup/clone.
If not, then you've corruption/conflicts within the original user folder, usually preference files. Get Preferential Treatment and verify/repair them. Determining the conflict is a hit and miss proposition and time consuming. See my posts at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4703015 for the steps.

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