Screen saver includes wiered pictures?

About every 10th picture or so on my screen saver includes a wiered colorful graphic on top of the photo. Its never in the same spot and covers about 20% of the photo. Its random and oddly the graphics lool like flags or gems. When I view the same photo in iphot the graphic is not on the photo. Any ideas if this is some sort of virus?

Turns out the wierd pictures are actually iChat Icons from the folder /Library/Application Support/ Apple/iChat Icons. How the heck does that happen when I have identified iPhoto as my source for the screen saver?

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