Are you going to Favorites | Organize Favorites and deleting them? After you do that, they go away and you don't need to reboot. If that doesn't work contact me at thesinger@comcast.net.
Why are my default file folders in Office XP reappearing under Favorites, everytime I reboot?
)Entertainment
)Music
)Sports
etc...........
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