Messed Up Control Panel Icons In OS 9

I have a PowerMac G4 which has OS X and OS 9 installed, and recently performed a reformat and fresh install of OS X (Tiger). While doing so, I copied over my OS 9.2.2 installation to another external hard drive, and copied it back after I had set up OS X again. But now some of the icons in the control panel are messed up, some are just blank control panel icons as shown in the link below. How can I fix this, without having to reinstall hopefully? I've tried rebuilding the desktop with no success.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5339497/Other/Picture%203.png

Hi, Dave -
It's been a long while since I delved into using ResEdit to 'fix' (or experiment with changing) things in programs. Fired up my OS 9 machine and could not find where precisely to do that using ResEdit. File Buddy makes many things a lot easier in OS 9.
Using ResEdit - open ResEdit, then use the Open item in its File menu, navigate to the item you want to get into and select/open it. You are presented with an array of various resources (ResEdit = Resource Editor). Double-click a resource to open it. Many of the available changes are presented in a GUI format, rather than in raw code; some resources don't have a GUI template, and will open as code only. Note that some of the available menu items will change when you open a resource; investigate those, too.
Important - work only on a copy of the item you want to change. Although changes to an item are supposed to require you to save the changes when you close out of ResEdit, somtimes a change is made anyway. Keeping the original available untouched allows for graceful recovery in case of an 'Oops' event.
If you'd like to try File Buddy, you can get OS 9 version(s) here -
http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/en/7/download.html
... and there's some additional info about it here -
http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/en/7/index.html

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