HI Wayne, Thanks for the info... it turned out that deleting the ~/Library/ Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache did the trick - so I guess that was the corrupt file. Thanks, Scott On Sep 6, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote: > Don't know if you've gotten a reply--I'm probably late on this--but > I believe if you make invisible items visible in the finder, you'll > see icons in the preferences folder. Sounds like that one is > corrupt. See if you can find it and move it to the trash. I believe > it is safe to delete it as it should be recreated by the system, > but I prefer placing in the trash or copying elsewhere before > deleting--just in case. HTH. > > On Sep 4, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Scott McCulloch wrote: > > >> I just noticed that in the System Preferences, the icon for the >> Sound preferences is not displaying properly - instead of the >> little speaker, it appears to be part of the lightswitch with >> speaker in the corner. >> >> http://homepage.mac.com/sinemac/PrefPane.jpg >> >> I've tried repairing permissions, and rebooting, but that didn't >> fix it. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> My concern is that this might be a small symptom of something bigger. >> >> Thanks, >> Scott