Unknown Jack-in-the-box icon...

Sorry for the possible crossposting... Just noticed on my old G4 desktop that in the 'downlaods' dialog box some of the file icons have a 'jack-in-the-box' picture. This icon image is not associated with any software that I have ever seen before. Some virus or trojan horse? Is it going to pop? Has anyone seen this before?
PowerMac G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

A jack in the box icon may point to ResEdit, for information look at http://www.mac.org/utilities/resedit/

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Today I noticed that Excel file icons on my desktop have been replaced with a jack-in-the-box icon. It looks like this:
This seems to happen only to Excel files last modified prior to 1993 (although I have not checked all files to determine if this is always true). In the information panel (command-I) for the file, under "open with" it shows "microsoft excel (110725)" but with a "do-not-enter" symbol superposed. On the "open with:" pull down menu (still in the information panel) it also lists "microsoft excel 14.3.4" two times, along with "print preview" as possible choices.
If I double click on the file, it opens normally (I looked long and hard to see if this symptom resembled any viruses before doing that). But it does not change the icon back to normal unless I resave it as an xlsx document. If on the information panel, I change the "open with" choice to microsoft excel 14.3.4 and add the .xls extension to the file name (still in the info panel), the icon changes to the normal Excel icon. It does not change the icon on the desktop unless I do both. Occasionally, it will change the icon on the information panel, but not change the icon on the desktop.
In searching through the archives I found a discussion that suggests this icon is residual from the ResEdit program. I have no idea if that is relevant to my case (in the archive, it had to do with icons for Word documents).
I would appreciate thoughts on why this may have suddenly occurred, and if there is a way to reverse it, short of going through each of hundreds of Excel files, opening the Information panel, and manually making the change.
I did not recently update my OS or upgrade Office. I am running OS X v. 10.8.3 on a 17 inch MacBook Pro with 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7. The Excel version is 14.3.4 (130416). I have Sophos Anti-virus software running.
Thank you.

I am no help other than to say it happened to me as well, not on Excel files, but on 3 folders I had with custom icons. (from a Calvin and Hobbes collection). I have not idea where they came from, and oddly when I go back in time machine to versions of the folders that are a year old they have also been replaced with this icon.
I believe it defies explanation. But I am so glad it has happened to someone else. There is no discernable change other than the odd icon.

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