toolbar icons missing

Floating Point's icon

I've opened a patch and none of the windows have icons in their toolbars, but they still work. see picture attached.
max 5.06 mac g4 os10.4.11

Luke Hall's icon

Look for the .svg files in Cycling '74 > interfaces. Are they there? Is Max looking in the right place for them?

lh

Floating Point's icon

well they must be there because I have another patch open at the same time and it shows the icons, just this particular patch and all its subpatches do not...

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ok i quit all the concurrent apps i was running and rebooted max and its ok now...