Guest user finder icon has pixilation through half of it

When I'm logged into the guest user, the Finder icon has has the top half has pixilation with multicolor in it. This is only on the guest user, not on the Admin user. Not sure how to get it back to normal?

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A Safe Mode boot helped this user, same topic > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3262544?start=0&tstart=0
The graphic isn't exactly the same but a Safe Mode boot just may do the trick regardless.
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See the picture (upper border): http://i3.tinypic.com/7x8qedc.png
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The resource image for the Finder icon in the Dock is located here:
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Hello,
My Finder icon has spontaneously corrupted in the Dock. The icon of the Finder.app (in the CoreServices folder) is perfectly fine and its icon the Resources folder of the Dock.app is also perfectly fine.
Yet, the icon of Finder is corrupted in the dock as shown here: http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2973/dockimage.png and in the picture below
Any ideas, anyone?
My specs are as follows:

Have you tried removing all files containing com.apple.dock from the Preferences folder in your HOME Library folder and in the ByHost subfolder of the Preferences folder, then restarting the Dock (or logout/login)?
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I just did this successfully but a few minutes ago, and I remembered your thread's high position during my google search.
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