Nautilus is theme-less unless I run it as root
Well, after searching around. Adding a delay to gnome-settings-daemon when logging in corrected the problem
Can you change your icons theme?
Instructions:
1) Hit Alt+F2 and paste gnome-appearance-properties
2) Go to "Theme" and click "Customize".
3) Go to "Icons" and choose one.
change the theme as root and put the themes you want in root.. this works for me..
in otherwords become root and bring up your customization and select your theme or just download ubuntu tweak and have it fix the root theme bug