The text on my desktop icons has turned black. I've repaired permissions, run Disk Utility and zapped the PRAM. Nothing has worked. Any ideas out there?

Dual 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, Mac OSX 10.2.8, 1024 MB RAM.

could you be a little more elaborate

what were you doing before it happened?

The only thing I was doing was trying to resolve some font conflicts in Suitcase. Otherwise just normal day-to-day graphics stuff.

Since you were playing with a font utility, I wonder if the normal font that the system is using for icons may have either been made unavailable to the system, or has somehow been substituted. I'm not an OS X user yet, but in 9, under the Appearance control panel, in Fonts, you can choose the font that is used for Icons. Perhaps that has been changed (can you corrupt a Font file?), and just needs setting back to the normal Font/a more pleasing font. I know when my 5 year old "goes exploring", my Appearance settings sometimes look pretty wild upon my return...

I hope it's as simple as that...

-Mike

Try deleting your font caches... see recent daringfireball (q.v. http://daringfireball.net/2005/03/font_caches_gone_wild and a couple other more recent articles).

With the build of Safari that I've had installed here for awhile, and for whatever reason, any text entry field used to behave with white on white (i.e. illegible) text.  I dumped my font caches for the reasons discussed in the DF article (not related to this issue), but it had the side effect of curing this problem.

-ben

Thanks everybody. I ran Font Finagler, changed some settings in TinkerTool and logged out/in. Don't know if any or all of the above worked to fix things.