Videos Folder Impersonating Documents Folder

Boy, How do I explain this so that you all understand what actually happened
since I really don't KNOW WHAT happened. Well, I'll give it my best shot. Let
me begin by with a little background. Currently I have a separate HDD that I
use for all of my file storage. When I installed Vista Ultimate I changed the
location of the Documents Folder to "D:\My Documents" and I chose OK to the
prompts that followed about Merging, Moving, or whatever. Now when I open my
personal folder, Brian, and click on Documents, either in the Favorite Links
or Folders section it opens to all of my files and folders. I also redirected
the Pictures Folder to "D:\My Documents\My Pictures" and the Music folder -
same thing - "D:\My Documents\My Music", each time accepting the prompts
about merging, moving or whatnot. All was well for many months...until last
night that is. I suddenly got this urge to redirect the Videos folder to the
My Videos folder inside of the Documents folder.

Before I realized what had happened, when I chose the location for the
Videos folder, I chose what was now labeled "D:\Documents" thinking that it
would just put the Videos folder inside of the Documents folder. Of course
the prompts came up and I accepted them willy nilly and by now you all are
probably chuckling or perhaps even shedding tears from laughing so hard at me
(and rightfully so...). Well, somehow the Videos folder was instantly renamed
to Documents and when I click on it I see all of the files and folders that
are in the Documents folder. One of the interesting things is that even
though I am clicking on the folder that is supposed to be Videos (but is
labeled "Documents") the actual Documents folder is highlighted blue. If I
rename this folder back to Videos it also changes the name of the Documents
folder to Videos. I also tried restoring to original location and a prompt
came up telling me that the Videos folder did not exist under Brian and would
I like to create one. I thought I had fixed it when I chose Yes, but it just
renamed the two Documents folder to Videos as well and created a normal
shortcut folder named Videos (With 5 Tabs). Also, the Icon for the Documents
folder is the Videos Icon. So I now have 3 Videos folders, with one just
being a normal shortcut, but it still points to the "D:\My Documents". I
deleted the normal 5 tab Videos folder and that did nothing.

What else...Let's see...Now when I right click on either Documents folder in
the folder list they both have 6 Tabs instead of 5 and the location for both
of them say "D:\My Documents" and the Label on the General Tab for both of
them say "Documents". Also, both of them report the exact same folder size
and number of files. When I save a document, I can save it to either folder
and it shows up in the My Documents folder on the D:\ Drive and in both
Documents folders.

When I click on my personal folder on my desktop I also have two NTUSER.DAT
files. They are labled NTUSER.DAT.LOG1 with a file size of 256kb and another
one named ntuser.dat.LOG2 with a file size of 0kb. I thought perhaps I could
delete the .LOG2 folder but I get an error message that says it is being used
by another program.

I am scared to delete either one of the two Documents folders as I think
even if I delete the one that I "know" (I really don't KNOW anything anymore)
is supposed to be the Videos folder that it will delete all of my files. I
tried moving the files to a backup location but of course I got bit by that
other nasty Vista bug where you get the endless Calculating how much time is
left dialogue box. I have 36GB of Documents.

I also really don't want to blow out my user profile and create another one
since all of my programs are or most of them anyway are installed only to my
profile.

Can anyone please help. I know I have rambled and hopefully I have provided
some solid information. It doesn't really affect me THAT BADLY as I can
access my documents and my videos but it sure would be nice to have it back
the way it is supposed to be. Oh, by the way, I did try the Shadow Copy
function and that didn't help either. It listed all of the previous versions
as Documents.

Thanks So Much, I look forward to hearing from you all.

Val
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UNTIL it blows up I think I can fix it. IF it blows up I didn''''''''t touch
it!