Generic Icons in Tiger

My Photoshop and Image Ready have disappeared into Generic Land. How to get them back and what is wrong with my computer???

That is weird, I'm afraid it does sound like something more serious is wrong.
When you deleted the old Photoshop did you also delete all the system files that go with it? Preferences, caches, Application Support, etc?
The most obvious explanation is that some file in the system is corrupted and you didn't remove it and the reinstall didn't replace it. Still worse, it might not even be an Adobe file but a Mac system file.
First, remove Photoshop again. This time get EasyFind, it's free:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html
You want this in order to do a search for everything on your hard drive named Photoshop or Adobe and Spotlight does not search in all system folders, but EasyFind will. The problem here is that some Adobe products share some system files, so if you remove too much you might have to reinstall those as well, if you don't delete anything you suspect works with other Adobe app you risk not getting rid of the corrupted file.
Personally, I'd remove everything Adobe then reinstall any other apps later as needed.
After you delete all Photoshop (or Adobe) files, then go back and redo all you did before, but this time delete the Launch Services files first, then run repairs from the DVD then repair permission from the hard drive.
THEN reinstall Photoshop. If that doesn't work you will probably need an Archive and Install of the system. In fact, if you want to be sure of nuking the problem you can do an A & I after removing Photoshop and all it's files and skip all the rest of it.
As far as Apple Care I think they will say contact Adobe and Adobe will say contact Apple. You could try posting this on the Adobe forums and see if you get any better solutions.
Another thing to do is get Disk Warrior. This might be a directory corruption that Disk Utility can't even see let alone fix. It's not a great repair program, but Disk Warrior is the best for directory repair.
Kevin

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Curt,
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