Desktop folders populating my user folder

Hi,
I'm not sure this is normal, but in my
users/me/
folder I have too many "Desktop 1", "Desktop 1-1", "Desktop 2" (and so on, up to 21) folders
They are empty and don't seem to be doing any harm, but I would really like to understand where do they come from.
My OS 10.4.10 is in spanish, so my real desktop folder is named "Escritorio", there is only one of it with the nice mini desktop icon on my user folder and it works fine.
Any hints on why is this happening and how can it be avoided would be appreciated.

I have the same problem. I then parked the real desktop icon in the trash so that I could delete the other desktop marked folders safely. Now I cannot drag the real desktop icon out of the trash. the system is now making more desktop folders.
How do I get back to just the real desktop icon?

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