Folder icon colour change

My folder icons have suddenly changed from the usual pale blue to deep, royal blue. I have no idea why! Can anyone help? I'd like to change them back.

In fact it's G5, 10.6.8 now that I look (still Snow Leopard though).
It's just the folder icons that have changed colour, not the entire shade of the screen. My folders on Mail have also changed to royal blue; the folders in my Bookmarks in Firefox are still pale blue, but some of the icons for individual websites in Bookmarks have disappeared and been replaced by an empty box shape with a dotted line round it. All very strange.
I have tried logging out and back in but that doesn't have any effect.
I suppose it's no big deal but I just can't work out why it's happened!
Thanks for your help.

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