After a little more investigation, I discovered that
windows\system32\imageres.dll contains the icons I was looking for and was
able to restore the default icons for my effected folders. Still not
entirely sure how they got changed originally...

case closed... :-)

"jimb" wrote:

> My question is: how do you restore the icons for the common folders (e.g.,
> Documents, Music, Pictures) to the default, colorful icons that are present
> when a user id is first created?
>