Annoying reappearing "blank Bookmarks" on home screens

Hello fellow Mac-ers,
So I have a very annoying problem. It seems that every time I sync my iPhone 3G, my home screens are littered with these strange bookmarks. They are not visible until you are in the application delete mode. And then my home screens shows all the "x's" that mark these bookmarks. They add themselves, adding 2 or 3 pages of them at the end of my home screens.
What are these, and how do I get rid of them? It's annoying to have to delete 50 or so of these every time I sync.
Also, when you do tap them accidentally, like while flipping through home screens, it opens Safari to a blank web page that says "about:blank"
Thank you for advice, Chris

nevermind. I fixed it. Good 'ole reboot

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