Wrong Icon is shown in the system preference

Something happened a little while ago which has cause an anomily in my system. For some strange reason, when I launch my system preferences, the icon for the startup disc looks like a wall switch. I don't know when it started or what caused it. But it is a bit aggrevating.
Anybody know how to correct this? Is the icon file stored somewhere I can get at it?
Any help woud be appreciated.

Hi Richard!
Have you tried using the Disk Utility application found in /Applications/Utilities to repair permissions first. This could be a simple permissions problem. Or you may need to run a disk tool like DiskWarrior <http://www.alsoft.com/>. You may have more serious problems.
Hope this helps!
bill
  Mac OS X (10.4.10)   1 GHz Powerbook G4

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