After submitting a support ticket to solve the issue, I received no real help, and just a lot of questions.
I did receive some help on this from a Windows 7 forum. I believe they had the answer and my problem(s) seem to be resolved.
The Icon Cache was apparently corrupted and needed to be deleted and refreshed.
I used the following link to apparently resolve the issue:
http://www.winvistaclub.com/t71.html
Chuck