Random low rez icons in Dock, Switcher, and Finder?

Is anyone else getting randomly appearing low resolution app icons since updating to 10.6 or 10.6.1? They change to low rez jaggy fuzzy wherever they're loaded from the system. So they might appear in the Finder, the Dock, the Switcher, or in odd places like the Time Machine hard drive icon.
Sometimes they're normal and sometimes they switch to low.. I can't tell why.

Found some information on this Apple thread.
Also here at MacFixIt.
None of the solutions presented in either forum are permanent fixes, only temporary. Restarting usually makes the problem go away for awhile, and is the easiest less detrimental solution.
Hopefully Apple will come up with a fix soon.

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