Planets, cartoons overlaying pictures in screensaver?

On a MacMini running Tiger 10.4.4, I have the standard Apple screensaver set to display photos from my Pictures Folder. Those pictures display fine most of the time, but sporadically I get another pixilated cartoonish image -- the planet Jupiter, Elmo, and other odd images that look sort of like icons blown up to almost full-screen size, with blurry or overly large pixel blocks -- overlaid on my photo.
I've checked my preferences and options and can find nothing that gives a clue as to what is happening. The photo files themselves are fine. (In fact, I'm using copies of the identical files on a second MacMini running 10.3.9 and they display fine with no overlaid images, or at least I haven't spotted any yet.)
Out of a 100 different images, this overlay occurs maybe once or twice. I'm not sure yet whether they happen on the same pictures each time, or whether they pop up randomly. (There are hundreds of pictures in my Pictures Folder.)
I did a search in another forum and found someone complaining of the same behavior in their screensaver...from 2003, so this may not be Tiger specific.
Does anyone know what is happening here? Or have any clues as to where to look for a solution?

They are the icons stored in your iChat icons
folder. It's located in the Pictures folder so
once you enabled the Screensaver to display your
pictures it started displaying every image file
contained therein. Move the iChat icons
folder out of the Pictures folder.
Thanks. I actually figured that out last night. Since I don't use iChat, moving the folder won't matter to me, but would it matter if I DID use iChat? Can iChat still use those icons if they are located elsewhere?

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