Document file saving confusion using desktop "alias" folder

I'm having trouble finding files in Snow Leopard. My question is , where are "saved" document files supposed to go?
I like using a desktop alias folder, but over time I've played around with Time Machine, adding and deleted folders in the Dock, and created three or four different alias folders and basically I've screwed the pooch; there are now non-duplicate folders named "User Name" and "User Name 2" (plus the empty "Documents" sub-folder I've heard is a place holder for older software files ?) on the HD and I don't what is where the new files are being saved.
In any case, I may have two, three or even four sets of partial documents, so I need to do some work moving files around, trashing some and condsolidating the rest into the master Documents file ... but before I go through all that I need to make sure I understand where the OS wants saved files to go.
Is this path correct ? MS Word > Save > Documents Alias Folder > HD > Users > User Name > Documents.
If that's correct, then I can go to the various Word 2011 forums and find out how to make sure files are being saved using that path.
Thanks,
Brian

Stuffit's default is to decompress files saved to the desktop.
Pages documents are actually zipped folders.
Look in the Stuffit preferences and see if you can turn it off. Or get out of the habit of saving to the desktop, there are better places to organise your work
I disagree that Stuffit is useless, in fact it really is the swiss army knife of decompression and pays to have it around. Amongst other archive utilities.
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f i want to move my master and version files from one project to another (and the corresponding master files too), i should first move the master files using File> Relocate master and then drag-drop the versions from within Aperture. (I usually maintain similar names for my HDD folders and corresponding projects in Aperture, hence if i move the master, then it makes sense to move the versions too).
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The library structure inside Aperture is totally independent of the file structure you use to store referenced masters on the HD outside of Aperture.
Now It is possible to have one mimic the other as you seem to be doing but for all intents and purposes Aperture doesn't care at all how the external file structure appears as long as Aperture knows were the masters are.
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On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:03 AM, Bill Hernandez wrote:
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-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
on script_title()
Filename : getevery_file_ofevery.scpt (Script Debugger)
Author : Bill Hernandez
Version : 1.0.0
Updated : Tuesday, January 02, 2007 ( 6:15 PM )
end script_title
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
on script_notes( )
This is a work around to the alias list problem I encountered
end script_notes
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
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end tell
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

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That's not really a bug. In this line:
set aSel to (((every document file in folder thePath) & (every document file of every folder in folder thePath)) as alias list)
two list are being concatenated which returns a list and 'as alias list' doesn't work on lists. You could do this:
set aSel to (every document file in folder thePath as alias list) & (every document file of every folder in folder thePath as alias list)
If there aren't anymore levels, then you can use 'entire contents':
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