'Applications' in Home directory no longer works

Strangest thing happened - when I open finder, I have two options for 'Applications'. The bar on the left has no problem taking me to the normal folder, but the icon in the normal window (ie, part of the /jtadler/ directory) does not go where is is supposed to go. Any thoughts as to why this might be?

Double click on your Macintosh HD icon and put the resulting window into Column view. You should now have two columns: the first is the Sidebar, the second shows the folders Applications, Library, System and Users. Click Users and you get an additional column with Shared and your home folder. Click the home folder and you get a fourth column with the contents of your home folder. Click the Applications folder there. Is there anything in it? If not you can trash it.
If you want an alias to your main Applications folder there instead, press and hold down the Option and Command keys and click, hold and drag the Applications folder into your home folder. You'll see a little curly arrow on the cursor as you do this, letting you know that you aren't moving the Applications folder, but creating an alias to it. You will then have an Applications folder in the usual place, and in your home folder an alias named Applications with an arrow on the corner of the folder icon. If you click on it you will see the contents of the Applications folder.
Since you already have an alias to the Applications folder in your Sidebar, I don't know why you would want another. Far handier is to drag the Applications folder onto the Dock, where you can access it at any time.
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