can you try to run `sudo update-gconf-defaults` and move your ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome* ~/.nautilus ~/.metacity to a backup location?
also if this is a case of missing icons, you can try to refresh your icon database by doing
for i in /usr/share/icons/*;
do sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f $i;
done
can you try to run `sudo update- gconf-defaults` and move your ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome* ~/.nautilus ~/.metacity to a backup location?
also if this is a case of missing icons, you can try to refresh your icon database by doing
for i in /usr/share/icons/*; icon-cache -f $i;
do sudo gtk-update-
done