Mac Utilities Folder MEGA Problem

in my macs utilities folder under applications where you find things such as disk utility and system profiler i have a problem. i am unable to open any of them. none of them have icons. they all have an icon that looks like a piece of paper and the ruler, pant brush pencil, that make an A over it. i don't have any of the original icons. like this one for system profiler.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2009/09/profilericon.jpg
when i try to open one of them up i get a message that says YOU CAN"T OPEN THE APPLICATION (insert which ever app here) BECAUSE IT IS NOT SUPPORTED ON THIS ARCHITECTURE.
if there was a way i could show you a screenshot i would.
i tried to reinstall from my disk that came with my mac with all the soft ware but i did not because a message that popped up said if i did that i would not have the latest version of software.
Message was edited by: eagle2009

First thing to try is downloading the 10.5.8 COMBO update from Apple.com, installing it, then checking to see if the icons are back.
Have you made any changes to your system lately?
~Lyssa

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