Help! Folder icons (and some others) are missing.

check out the screen shot at http://hanskline.com/images/doesThisLookNormal.jpg
i have repaired, verified, rebuilt to no avail...any other ideas?
1.8 ghz g5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   2.5 gb sdram

Hi Hans, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
No, of course it doesn't look normal. Have you tried creating a new account and see how your icons look in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.)
Open System Preferences > Accounts > "+" make it an admin account.
If this works, then log back into your problem account and navigate to ~(yourHome)/Library/Preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then log out and back in again. Or restart.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]

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