Weird image on desktop

So I've got an external Lacie drive. When I plugged it in this evening instead of showing up as a drive on the desktop, it shows up as a avi image. I went into disk utility and the dirve is mounted. I looked at it in the HD and it has the pretty little disk image there. All the files are there.
It just shows up as an avi icon, as of tonight.
How do I fix this? It disturbs my mac-zen mode.
ETA: Fixed it. Amazing things happen when I hit restart.

Nearly, Jon;
Hold control and scroll backwards, or ⌥⌘8 to turn zoom off.
I think Jon is confusing it with colour reversal - ⌃⌥⌘8.
Both can also be turned off in System Preferences > Universal Access > seeing tab.
I use both facilities daily.

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