Drives in favourites bar won't go away

Hi all,
Since upgrading/migrating from MacPro Lion to MacMini Mountain Lion I have had a few problems, some have resolved, but others... well here goes.
Finder:
I have re-applied a new command (new email with selection ⌃⌥⌘N) but it does not work at all. It did in Lion.
Certain USB drives are showing up in the Sidebar that shouldn't be. Even when I remove them from the Sidebar they return.
This leads me to think there is some wierdness happening in mym system but can't see where...
I have used onyx for do a bit of safe maintenance, I have used the restore partition to repair disk (none was necessary) and also repair permissions.
Same conditions exist.
Can someon please help me on this.
Just to be clear, the system is not unreliable other then the annoying "HDMI screen goes dead and moves windows unnecessarily thing" (do you know a fix for this?)
But it does clearly seem that the OS is not properly obeying, and this I think is a problem.
Thanks for your help,
Aaron

Here's the problem:
Note the location of the disks "Work" and "Elements". They shouldn't be in the favourites, and they shouldn't be in such a wierd order.
They only belong in the devices tray - they are doubling up. Even after I remove them manually.

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