I decided to get creative with my icons today and see how they could be customized. Its easy enough to change normal ones and I used the process described at http://www.xicons.com/help/defaults_10-2-x.php for the system icons. The problem Ive encountered (and a good reason for the disclaimer at the top of the webpage) was that even after editing SystemIcons.rsrc, rebooting ( and following the instructions word for word), my generic folder icons didn't change (all the others worked flawlessly). If I click on a random folder and 'get info' it shows the correct new icon and it shows up in the preview section as well . . . just not with the actual icon. Is this just a bug in OS X Im giong to have to live with or is there a way around it that I'm missing? Thanks for your help. 