Something wrong with System Preferences

Hey Guys,
I'm new to this forum. I'm also a mac noob! :P I jus picked up my MacBook last weekend...and I'm really enjoying the switch from PC.
But...there seems to be a problem with one of the icons in "System Preferences". My icon for "Start up DIsk" is distorted. All I see is the switch, and the top line of "start up disk" but not the whole writing; and the graphic doesn't match in very well. Does anyone else have this problem? Any way to fix this minor nuisance?
Thanks for your help!

Here is apple source that said it help solve the display problem:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300537
altough it is for a totaly blank display, I put reset pmu as a trick he should try for more likely apple care also suggest that trick to try at the first place before go into deeper examination.
Reseting PMU also reseting the NVram/pram:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
and here is what contained in nvram based on apple source:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Hope that make you understand better.
Good Luck.

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