Lion gives ghost icons on startup

Since upgrading to lion, any icons on the desktop appear transparent at startup. They are surrounded by a dashed line and the label below is proprely written out. Only by clicking and dragging the icon a little will it revert to the normal appearance of a folder, document etc. Only the icon for the hard drive appears normally. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

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