Weird characters in window

Hey Folks
I've got a 21.5" iMac, running the latest version os OSX. Yesterday, and I have no idea why this changed, something went weird with the characters when I'm using Finder.
For example, when I click 'Get Info', for a given folder, the box that opens up will show something like this:
http://www.alaskanalpinetreks.com/shots/screen-shot-02.jpg
or, when I go to Preferences for Finder, something like this appears:
http://www.alaskanalpinetreks.com/shots/screen-shot-01.jpg
I haven't noticed this occur with any other program. Any thoughts or input on how I can fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Cheers
Carl

Hey Folks,
Restart solved it. Some weird preferences corruption, I believe.
cheers
Carl

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