Missing Finder (and Finder preferences) icons

I have an odd issue. I noticed today that the small icons next to the files that done which application the file opens in are gone as are the previews for the file (if I select a PDF the arrows to switch pages work but there's no image preview).
Also, I noticed that when I go to Finder Preferences, the pictures for each menu item are gone (see link):
http://www.savagevenus.net/x/finder.png
Is there something wrong or am I going crazy?
Thanks!

Blah, I totally thought I worded that sentence differently D:
I meant to say that I contacted AppleCare/Support on the telephone but for some reason I didn't. Yeah, I contacted AppleCare on Friday and they mentioned to rollback to 10.6.2 and skip the update because some computers had problems with 10.6.3.
Trying to delete the finder.plist file - is it normal for it to keep reappearing after I delete it? I was deleting com.apple.finder.plist and it just keeps reappearing. I assume that's normal and it's just putting a default file in there?

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