IPod touch 4G - icons went blank

Several of the icons on my son's iPod touch went blank yesterday. The apps still seem to work, but the icons are now solid white. The name of the app is still directly below each blanked icon. I don't think any of the native iOS apps have gone blank. Some but not all of the apps we've gotten from the app store have gone blank. Can anyone help? Thanks.
IPod Touch 4th gen running iOS 4.2.1.

My daughter's ipod touch had white rectangles instead of icons. I could correct some of them when I downloaded updates. Others, I could correct by removing them and adding them back after synching, but they would only go away again. I seemed to finally solve the problem by downloading the current version of iTunes AND the current version of the ipod software. In case your wondering, my daughter has the 4G ipod touch and uses a Windows 7 tablet. She had the 2nd gen ipod touch, and got the new one for Christmas. The problem happened sometime after the switch.

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