Lost icon for Startup Disk in System Preferences panel

Last week i noticed that the icon for my Startup Disk doesn't display correctly in the System Preferences panel.
I've uploaded a screenshot of my System Preferences here:
http://www.solidgold.fi/img/systemprefs.jpg
You'll see the messed up icon between Speech and Universal Access.
Any ideas what can be causing this?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Pablo
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GHz

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