icon for iTunes 10.7/music missing from System Preferences in Snow Leopard

Question

My music/iTunes icon:

• is present in the Dock
• has gone from some panes of System Preferences.

This first screenshot is from the Spotlight pane, the icon is expected to the left of Music:

The second shot is from the CDs & DVDs pane, the icon is expected to the left of Open iTunes:

How do I get these icons back?

System:

• MacBook Pro
• Snow Leopard 10.6.8

What I tried:

• reboot
• login/logout
• trash Finder and Dock preference files

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Edit 1:

The output of the grep command suggested by Graham Perrin in the comments is as follows:

Laptop:~ myname$ system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType | grep iTunes.app  
      Location: /Applications/iTunes.app

In the Language & Text pane, three languages are present in the following order:

• British English
• Dutch
• Russian

Logging into a fresh user account does not solve the issue. The same icon is missing in the same places.

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Edit 2: Output for command /usr/bin/mdimport -L

Laptop:~ myname$ /usr/bin/mdimport -L 2012-10-24 11:12:32.307
mdimport[34295:903] Paths: id(501) (
    "/Library/Spotlight/iWork.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Font.mdimporter",
    "/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter",
    "/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/SourceCode.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Archives.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Audio.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/ParallelsMD.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Image.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Application.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/SPSS/SPSSStatistics.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/SPSSSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",
    "/Library/Spotlight/AppleWorks.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter",
    "/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Application Loader.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/MZSpotlight.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/OmniGraffle Professional 5.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/OmniGraffle.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/CoreMedia.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/Sente 6.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Sente6MI.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Chat.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/iPhoto.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/PS.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/vCard.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/PDF.mdimporter",
    "/Library/Spotlight/GBSpotlightImporter.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/iPhoto8.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Bookmarks.mdimporter",
    "/Applications/TeX Live Utility.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/DVIImporter.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/SystemPrefs.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/iCal.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/MIDI.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/QuartzComposer.mdimporter",
    "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Google Earth for Plugin.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Google Earth.mdimporter",
    "/System/Library/Spotlight/Automator.mdimporter",
    "/Users/b8i/Library/Spotlight/EndNote.mdimporter",
    "/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/uuid.mdimporter"
)

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Edit 3: Although the bounty has run out I still don't have a solution for this problem.

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Edit 4:
I have been poking around and through the "Open Files and Ports" function of the Activity Monitor I think I found the location where the images are loaded from. The file is:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ArtFile.bin

Unfortunately I cannot open this file. Does anyone know how to open the file to see if that is the place where the images are loaded from?
When I rename Artfile.bin almost no application starts.

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Edit 5:

The Garageband application does show the iTunes icon:

Answer 1

By reinstalling iTunes, did you completely trash the application and then copy it anew? Sometimes simply overwriting the existing installation doesn't do the trick.

Answer 2

Reinstall iTunes. The icons in the Spotlight preference window and other areas of OSX are mostly derived from the application bundle. It looks like the iTunes icon package has become corrupted. A reinstall will eliminate that as the reason.

Answer 3

Type

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ToolbarMusicFolderIcon.icns:

into terminal.app to see if ToolbarMusicFolderIcon.ics exists.

If not, here is my copy. Download it and place it in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

Answer 4

Have you tried resetting Launch Services?

Answer 5

Although reinstalling iTunes did not help, updating did. I just downloaded iTunes 11 and now all icons are back where they should be.