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try this
start -> run/search -> regedit
browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
edit the key for 'my music'
and chnage it to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Music
HOWEVER... you definitely pointed me in the right direction.
It turns out if I simply change that reg key from %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Music, to %USERPROFILE%\My Music, it seems to solve the problem. Haven't seen any duplicate folders or shortcut icons since.
I have no idea why that works, or how it got so messed up to begin with, but either way... thanks for taking the time to reply and getting me pointed in the right direction!
Actually, that was one of the first things I did. The path in the Locations tab was C:\Users\username\Documents\My Music, and if I changed it to omit the Documents part it would tell me that folder doesn't exist and prompt me to create it, even though that was the folder I was already editing.
If I did allow it to create a new folder that way and used that one, it would still place another duplicate in the sub-folder as well... and still, if I deleted that one it would take the original with it as well. And on and on...
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think that's the case, for several reasons. For one, it only does this to that one folder, which just so happens to be the very one I myself tampered with a few weeks ago. Also (and I only recently noticed this), that it tends to happen in specific circumstances, like if I use WMP to play one of the music files in that folder. So it actually isn't as random as I had thought. And lastly, changing the registry entry to point to the correct folder seems to have solved the issue.
All this leads me to believe I mixed up something myself when I messed around with that folder a few weeks ago. I think what probably happened is a must have deleted the original default folder, and now Windows doesn't recognize it any more and keeps trying to recreate it even though it already exists. Not sure why it recreates them in two different locations, but whatever... it seems to be working now so I'm not gonna worry too much about it.
Thanks again for the help everyone.