Macintosh HD icon changed

Hi,  really hope somebody can help me here because i have been searching the web for the last three hours without any luck and its starting to drive me mad!  So heres the problem, Today whilst working on my imac i noticed that my Macintosh HD icon had changed and is now much smaller with the letter V under it! also it no longer shows up on the left hand side of the finder window. Im not sure if this caused it, but today i installed two 3rd party programs that can only be intalled on snow leopard or higher and i am only on leopard! Anyhow,im a bit worried now because i dont no if this is a major issue and i have caused damage to my computer and i have no idea how to short it out! So any help will be much appreciated.. Many Thanks

Open disk utility and capture a screen shot (command-shift-4) of the left drive pane.  You may have renamed your drive by accident.  Here is an example.

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