Keep losing button icons

A short while ago I had a problem with all apple apps losing their icon pictures (can only see the button) I followed the reply and did a safe mode restart and all came back and was working well. now the only way to get the buttons to display correctly is to boot into safe mode first and then do a restart back into normal mode. I am at a loss on how to fix or find out where the problem is coming from Plese help me out. I have all the latest updates

as requested here is th info from Etrecheck
I'm not sure what this is telling me
Hardware Information:
          iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
          iMac - model: iMac13,1
          1 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          16 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.8.5 (12F37) - Uptime: 0 days 0:6:50
Disk Information:
          APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk1 : (1 TB)
                    disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    disk1s2 (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 999.35 GB
                    Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          APPLE SSD SM128E disk0 : (121.33 GB)
                    disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    disk0s2 (disk0s2) <not mounted>: 120.99 GB
                    Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 134.2 MB
USB Information:
          Seagate Backup+ Desk 2 TB
                    disk4s1 (disk4s1) <not mounted>: 32 KB
                    Seagate Backup Plus Drive (disk4s3) /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive: 2 TB (705.42 GB free)
          IOMEGA MINIMAX 250.06 GB
                    disk5s1 (disk5s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    stuff (disk5s2) /Volumes/stuff: 249.72 GB (22.92 GB free)
          HLDS Inc SuperMulti RW
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Seagate Desktop          1 TB
                    disk3s1 (disk3s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Torrant files (disk3s2) /Volumes/Torrant files: 999.86 GB (658.86 GB free)
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
          com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore          (5.2.3)
          com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5          (5.2.3)
          com.hzsystems.terminus.driver          (4)
          com.avast.PacketForwarder          (1.3)
          com.avast.AvastFileShield          (2.0.0)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
          [loaded] com.anchorfree.ajaxserver.plist
          [not loaded] com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.bjango.istatmenusagent.plist
          [loaded] com.divx.dms.agent.plist
          [loaded] com.divx.update.agent.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
          [loaded] com.avast.home.userinit.plist
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          iTunes
          TomTomHOMERunner
          TomTomHOMERunner
          DVDAuthorizeHelper
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          avast! Preferences
          Flash Player
          Flip4Mac WMV
          Java
Internet Plug-ins:
          AdobePDFViewer.plugin
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
          DivX Web Player.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
          iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          OVSHelper.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
          Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
          Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
Bad Fonts:
          None
Top Processes by CPU:
               1%          WindowServer
               1%          fontd
               1%          EtreCheck
               0%          SystemUIServer
               0%          coreservicesd
               0%          imagent
Top Processes by Memory:
          147 MB             mds
          147 MB             WebProcess
          131 MB             Mail
          131 MB             iTunes
          115 MB             Safari
          66 MB              CalendarAgent
          66 MB              SystemUIServer
          66 MB              Dock
          66 MB              WindowServer
          49 MB              com.apple.dock.extra
Virtual Memory Statistics
          10.94 GB           Free RAM
          1.25 GB            Active RAM
          1.64 GB            Inactive RAM
          2.17 GB            Wired RAM
          1.64 GB            Page-ins
          0 B                Page-outs

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