Problem with desktop icons

Hi,
Hope someone can help, my desktop icons have turned into these wierd square buttons with a grey background - The icons are no longer draggable but simply work as buttons.
Basically everything that I dump on the desktop turns into one these grey square buttons.
I've never seen this before - maybe it's a simple solution to solve.
It quite suddenly began doing this when I still had OS 9.0 - can't remember the circumstances since it was quite a while ago...I thought the problem might have gone away when I updated to 9.2.2, but it's still there.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
cheers
Andrew

OS9er...
Have you attempted to change your buttons back to icons?

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