Boot OSX folder appears on desktop

I randomly have this folder called Boot OSK appear on my desktop. It's won't open and it won't go away unless i restart. anybody know what this is?
here is a picture
http://lim.podzone.net/d/bootosx.jpg
Message was edited by: Steve Szolcsanyi

After much research, I was unable to definitively find the cause of this. The Boot OSX folder is supposed to be created on any bootable volume, but is supposed to be hidden. I was able to reproduce the problem by switching in and out of the account using fast user switching--each time I would switch back there would be more instances of the Boot OSX folder on my desktop. This didn't seem to cause any problems, just annoying. based on other's suggestions, I contacted both SoftRAID and SuperDuper!. Both were helpful but did not have a cure (nor had they seen this particular issue). I am not suggesting that the problem has anything to do with those software products, I was just following up on other's suspicions.
The Cure (for me): Reformat each volume. I know, pain in the rear, but it did work for me. I deleted all partitions, deleted the RAID volumes, then rebuilt all from scratch. YMMV.

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