Pixelated icons in mountain lion

Icons are unexpectedly pixelated. As far as I can tell it is with newly installed applications. The icons of the apps that came with ML appear fine.
Software OS X 10.8 (12A269)

Mende1, I appreciate your help and effort!
Killed the dock, no difference in LaunchPad icons.
Restarted OSX, no difference either.
Checked /Library/Preferences again, neither com.apple.dock.db nor com.apple.dock.plist are present (are they not rewritten when they've been deleted?). But there is a new com.apple.dockfixup.plist
eM-Lin:Preferences letterror3$ ls -la | grep *dock*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8024 Aug 13 12:59 com.apple.dockfixup.plist
Fresh screenshot:

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