Icons missing on some files

Hi everyone,
I recently did a complete fresh install of Leopard on my Mac Pro. One strange thing I have noticed is that some files do not show any preview or icon associated with the file or application. Instead there is a simple dotted outline of a square where the icon would be. The file name below the 'icon' is there but nothing else. Another example is when I copy a file or download a file from a web site. Sometimes when the download or file copy is completed there is no icon above the file name just an empty box outlined with a dotted box.
One other example is when an application is dropped into the applications folder, rather than the applications icon showing up there is a default icon showing two blank documents and a white 'no-entry' symbol.
If I restart my machine or in some cases re-launch finder the icons appear and everything is OK.
Does anybody have any ideas what this could be? I originally had simply upgraded my machine from Tiger to Leopard and I don't recall this being an issue. It has only been after a complete re-install ( hard drive format ) that this problem has started.
Thanks for any help
Allan

Sorry Allan, but I suspect no one has a clue, I know I don't. You could try first doing a Safe Boot (hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime), then restart normally. See if that sorts it out. You could also try booting from the Leopard install Disk, check your language, then go to the menu bar and locate Disk Utility and run the Disk Repair function and see if any errors are reported as not being fixable. If you updated to 10.5.1 using software update, try instead to download the full 110MB 10.5.1 updater and run it:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1051update.html
I've only seen those dotted outline thingies when there was some serious damage to an item's status in the file system, like one thing was saying it existed, and something else said it didn't. (Sorry that sounds so goofy, but that is as near as I ever came to understanding what was going on, and it only happened a couple of times to a couple of files).
Francine
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