Disk images after snow leopard

Hi all,
I recently installed SL on a MacBook Air using remote disk. The process was not smooth, with several failed installs due to dropped connections between the Air and my main MacBook Pro. It's all installed now, but every time I load up I get three disk images on the desktop labelled 'OS X'. Each one says for example '2.28GB, 1.16BG free'.
All of these can be ejected but its quite annoying to do it everytime I start up, and I assume they are taking up 2.28GB each until I eject them.
Anyone know what's going on and how I can get rid of it?
Thanks,
Ben

The problem is that you have an unneeded partition on your HD—left over from an unsuccessful install of Sno. To remove it, open ~/Applications/Disk Utility. Then, select your hard drive volume from the list on the left, and next select the "Partition" tab. You'll see the unneeded "Install OS X" partition in the diagram. Select it and press the "-" button underneath to remove the partition. Afterward, resize the Macintosh HD partition to include the space used by unneeded partition.

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