what on earth??

[gabe]

I just adjust the size of all my icons in Kcontrol to 32 pixels, and they all 
went weird. Now only 10% of the icons display, the others are missing and 
often just a square box is present, even that little bouncing icon is 
destroyed.

I read an article on the ubuntu forums about this, and someones solution was 
to simply put the size of the icons back to how they were. Unfortunately I'm 
unable to do this since the drop-down menu that holds the icons resolutions 
in Kcontrol is completely empty/dysfunctional.

I have just complete a reinstall this very evening and am reluctant to do that 
again. What is the solution to this mess?

Regards,
Gabe