Icon Woes

Another weird thing as the result of my tinkering.
A friend from a discussion board, even more of a novice than I, was asking about custom icons. A few people recommended CandyBar to him, but I thought I'd experiment on his behalf.
Following the instructions on a site found with a Google search, I found I was able to replace an individual folder's icon by copying the desired .icns file from an Icon set I downloaded (from the apple.com downloads section) by copying it to the clipboard, opening the Information Pane on the folder I wished to change, clicking the icon at the top, and going to *edit -> paste*. Did this once, and was able to successfully change the icon for my /Applications folder. However, I am unable to change it back. I saved a copy of the default icon set from /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/
I have not edited that directory, just created a copy of it for reference. I tried to use the same method to copy the default ApplicationsFolderIcon.icns back into the Information Pane, but with no luck. Instead the Applications folder has the type of icon assigned to a generic document to be opened by Preview.
Any ideas?

You're welcome, glad to have helped & thanks for the star
That is an option but I prefer the cut & paste way, easier to reverse IMO.

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