the annoying case of the disappearing custom icons

It's becoming really annoying now.

Is it something I'm doing wrong?
Some setting i missed?

What do i have to do to make my custom icons stick
to the files i stick them on.

Some times they stick for a day.
Sometimes for a few days.
Some seem to stick for good.

I set some icons this morning... tonight, they
have reverted back to their default icons AGAIN
(TextEdit in this case)

Some aspects of my interactions with my mac depend
heavily on visual recognition of files on a timely
basis.

The problem is... it's unreliable and that makes
designing a graphic interface in the finder way
more difficult than it needs to be.

Can anyone help me solve this problem?

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