Funky icons in System Preferences

I just noticed today that my icons for "Sharing" and "Starup Disk" have changed in my System Preferences. They look somewhat like the lightswitch from the system preferences icon, however I can't make out exactly what it is.
How can I get my original icons back? Any ideas as to what could have caused this change??? I haven't been doing anything irregular... hopefully this wasn't a security threat.
Please send help for my icons, thanks!

This has happened to me once or twice. It seems that it is caused by a corrupted cache or pref file.
I corrected it by closing sys prefs and deleting these two files -
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache

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