Icons missing from Finder and desktop

I have just bought a new iMac. Most of the proper icons for the various applications and folders are not showing in the Finder; instead there is a generic b&w icon that is difficult to see. The icons of files (Word, Excel. Acrobat) on my desktop do show up briefly when I start-up, but then one-by-one change to the nondescript icons. Curiously, one Excel file is OK, but that is the only one.
Can anyone help me on this one?
Ian

There is a Use As Default button but in order to use it for preview icons you first have to open a folder in the Finder and set it to icon view; then the View>Show View Options menu will include a Use As Default button at the bottom.
Whether that works in Dock stacks I don't know because the first thing I did with my new Macs was disable the abominable stacks using a 3rd-party utility called Quay. Rumour has it that the forthcoming Os 10.5.2 update will have that option built in (as it should have been from day 1).
As things stand, you can either live with the seriously misjudged default behaviour of folders added to the Dock or you can force the folder icons to show a constant icon by adding a file or folder with the desired icon to each of the dock folders and putting a space at the start of its filename so that it is always the first item in the list. Alternatively, the aforementioned Quay lets you set a custom icon for each Dock folder.
Simon

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Linci Mary: https://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud
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Thomas Shambler: ended task - it started up again
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