I started up my computer and there are all of these weird symbols like circles, triangles, squares/boxes in all different combinations. What went wrong and how can I fix it?

The last thing I remember installing was itunes 10.5 so I don't think that is the problem, but this never happened before.
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... and there are all of these weird symbols like circles, triangles, squares/boxes in all different combinations...

If this is what you are looking at for desktop icons,

                

... then the Marlett font has been substituted for the system font. This was dealt with and (I believe) resolved in the following thread,

Update loses fonts only wing dings appear program is then worthless

No particular response was specifically marked as the answer to the problem, but I believe we identified and resolved the issue.

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