Finder shows blanks icons in Lion OS X 10.7

Upgraded to Lion and I no longer see icons. All so many error messages I can't number. Brand new macbook pro running much slower with lion. Im ready to go back to leopard!

I have the same problem PLUS all system preferences are stuck - I can't change them. For example, if I turn of mobileme sync, and then close system preferences and re-open, it's back to syncing. I've run repair permissions on disk utility from the main partition, and also have restarted from the restore partitition and run disk utility and repaired from there. Nothing changes. I'm sadly about to wipe the hard drive, and do a clean install. One hint: I installed Lion by copying onto my MacBook Pro the Install OS X Lion application (or whatever it was called) that I downloaded from the Mac App Store at work. I'm suspecting this is the problem. Of course, the irony of this is that Apple want to make life easier by having things like LaunchPad and other stuff that are meant to be idiot proof. But THIS idiot did the dumb thing and thought "let's try and see if it works when I just copy that application over onto my MBA". It appeared to work just fine! And everything worked UNTIL (I believe) I did a restart the next day. Syncing worked (I checked)... but the next day. Broken. Anything that requires modifying a file? BROKEN. Ok - this is no use whatsoever to you, najjafromlv, but trust me. I NEED THERAPY !! And writing this is my therapy. Good luck to you, and everyone else that suffered this problem!

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