I had a similar problem in Windows 7.
After downloading the application, one of my control buttons contained a filled square. But after clicking on it, he became the usual checkbutton:

, , ... Tk.IntVar() .
import Tkinter as Tk
import ttk
root = Tk.Tk()
checkVar = Tk.IntVar()
x = ttk.Checkbutton(root, variable=checkVar, text="check 1")
x.pack()
checkVar2 = Tk.IntVar()
y = ttk.Checkbutton(root, variable=checkVar2, text="check 2")
y.pack()
root.mainloop()