Icon problem in system preferences

I recently opened my system preferences and found that the speech icon (between the software update and startup disc icons) had been replaced by some other icon that looks like a lightswitch. I was wondering if there's anyway to get the icon I had back.
Thanks,
Dan

Ferd ll,
I had the same phenomenon: an outsized lightswitch suddenly replacing the 'sharing' icon in system prefs.
I saw a post recommending trashing just the last of the three files you suggest, and it worked (com.apple.preferencepanes.cache).
But, being a nervous newbie I became afraid I might be messing something up by deleting a file of whose function I'm ignorant, and so I moved it back to Caches from the Trash, only to have a dialogue tell me a newer version of the same file exists there, and do I want to replace it with the old (the one I'm moving back.)
I'm confused. Did the OS create a new, uncorrupted version of the file when I trashed it?
And, is it really safe to delete the original (my nerves whisper it must be there for a purpose.)
Thanks for your insight...

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