Why are my header icons and toolbar buttons grayed out?

I purchased a used Macbook Pro from ebay.  Appeared to be in good working order when I first started working with it, but I have updated from OS X 10.9.2 to 10.9.5 and downloaded Open Office program, set up my mail and went through the system preferences and personalized it.  Also ran disk utilities.  Then, this AM, when I restarted, the header icons on the right side are grayed out except for the battery %, the date and time and notifications.  Also, in mail and safari, the toolbar buttons are blank (forward, back, print, mail, bookmarks, autofil, history and downloads).  What happened?  I went to the disk utility from the recovery partition (repaired disk and disk permissions).  I also reset parameters.  Don't know what to do next.  Not sure if this is a hardware or software problem, but I am assuming it is software (OS X) related at this point.  Please help.

  Start up in Safe Mode.
  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204?viewlocale=en_US
Giving away / Selling your Mac / Resetting  the computer to the factory condition
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/

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