Lion lost my custom document icons

I have a couple of custom icons for documents of particular File Types that are gone since I upgraded to Lion. By File Type I mean the old-style Classic kind, as in Type/Creator. The files have no extensions. These documents belong to an old Carbon application that has its own Type codes, one of which is ASQ4, for instance.
I did a search for files like this, and found that some of the files' icons were generic page-type icons, some were the dark gray executable Unix type, and perhaps half were completely missing- no icon at all.
Has something changed recently in the way icons are shown or assigned? Can I get the old icons back, or at least restore them from saved files? I've repaired permissions and restarted.

I just upgraded to OS X 10.7.4, and now my icons are back.

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