System Prefs window, Icon gone wrong?

My printer icon is just a big box in my system pref window
like this:
If anyone can help to fix it, that would be great.
Thnaks people
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

V8_Kompressor,
According to MarkDouma®: Quit System Preferences if it's running and trash the following file:
/Users/~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
Then launch System Preferences and hopefully the icons should appear properly.;~)

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