Odd-color icons and desktop wallpaper after Migration Assistant

My hard drive on my Mini recently started doing the "click of death," so I replaced it with a newer drive. I completely erased the new HD and installed a fresh copy of Leopard with the 10.5.7 combo updater, then ran Migration Assistant to copy over my apps and files.
Everything is working fine, except that some of my icons and wallpaper are the wrong colors. For instance, the Finder icon is purple instead of blue, the ladybug on the wallpaper is green instead of red, and all the buttons and icons in Firefox are also the wrong colors. I have done the usual maintenance tasks and rebooted, but they are still the same.
Besides totally re-installing and skipping the Migration Assistant, is there a way to correct the colors?

Actually it sounds like something odd happened with your monitor calibration. Go to System Preferences, click on the Displays preference, then click on the Color tab. Is your display's profile listed? If it is, and the correct one is selected, you might try clicking the Calibrate button and work your way thru the steps, then save as a new profile.
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