Aliases replacing real files, losing originals

Hiya, I am asking about a problem happening with my parents computer. Over the last few hours, several folders (important ones) that they had on their desktop, and some documents also have been turning themselves into alisaes for no apparent reason. When they try to open these aliases, the message "the alias...(name of folder) could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found." My dads tried looking for the originals using spotlight and cant find them. Any initial thoughts on what may be the problem? It would be much appreciated.
He is thinking it may be a virus, but considering his system is not well maintained it could be anything. This is a powerbook using 10.4.3 by the way, not the ibook as shown below.
Thanks everyone.
iBook G4 12 inch Mac OS X (10.4.2) 80 GB internal Hard Drive

Thanks everyone.
As far as some of the advice goes, such as finding the originals or the aliases having broken links... my dad has looked for the missing items thoroughly (using spotlight, find file etc.) and cannot find them. Also, these are not aliases my parents created on purpose, they were (up until this problem began) normal originals, but turned into aliases on their own . I know it sounds weird, which is why we're confused, but apparently that is what happened.
I think they've been using it since the problem began, so in light of what Kurt said, sounds like I'd better warn them not to.
My parents have been very busy the last few days, so have not had the time to dedicate to sorting out their machine, I'm not sure when they will be able to look at it, so if I come back to this in a few days, I'm hoping you guys can chip in again!
iBook G4 12 inch Mac OS X (10.4.2) 80 GB internal Hard Drive
iBook G4 12 inch Mac OS X (10.4.2) 80 GB internal Hard Drive

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