What happened to the Startup Disk icon?

I've only had my MacBook Pro for about two weeks (and already seem to have screwed things up). The last couple of day I've notices that my System Preferences > Startup Disk has gone from the harddrive icon to this icon:
http://symtym.com/rsc/startupdisk.jpg
Any suggestions as what caused this and what to do to fix it? TIA
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4)

A lot of people have had this strange light switch icon replace normal ones. See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2819841&#2819841
Removing the preference files recommended by Ferd seems to fix it.
Francine
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