Replacement of letters by symbols all over my hardrive

On my hardrive there are symbols instead of letters. Instead of my hardrive being named "Tim's iBook" which is 12 characters, it just has the letter A with a box around it 12 times. This is occuring all over the computer, all of the folders... ect. Another example is when I pull down the home, applications, shared files everything is named a with a box around it. Say the name of the folder is home, which is obviously 4 characters, there will be 4 A's with a box around it. Im not sure if this is a virus or what, but I have never seen anything like it.
iBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Open the folder /System/Library/TextEncodings/ on your hard disk and look at the contents of this folder; there should be the following items in it on a Mac OS X 10.4 system:
Arabic Encodings.bundle
Central European Encodings.bundle
Chinese Encodings Supplement.bundle
Chinese Encodings.bundle
Core Encodings.bundle
Cyrillic Encodings.bundle
Greek Encodings.bundle
Hebrew Encodings.bundle
Indic Encodings.bundle
Japanese Encodings.bundle
Korean Encodings.bundle
Symbol Encodings.bundle
Thai Encodings.bundle
Turkish Encodings.bundle
Unicode Encodings.bundle
Western Language Encodings.bundle
If any of these are missing, use Pacifist to extract that bundle from your Mac OS X installation disk, and then run the combo updater for your version of Mac OS X. You may need to connect the computer to another Mac with a FireWire cable and start it up with the T key held down to see the filenames.
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