Question mark in right had corner of windows

I just had my first crash of a 1 year old macbook. after a hard reboot, i noticed that there is a question mark to the right of the search in the right hand corner of the HD window, or any other folder window. when i click on the question mark, i get a small window that says "cannot find item". very wierd. other than that computer seems to be working fine. anyone see this before?

It appears that random data may have been written to one of the plist files during the crash.
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