Every time I open Firefox on my new MacBook, I get the icons that appear when it is first downloaded.

One icon that appears is the one prompting to move it into the applications folder, along the blue one (flat box shaped, with the white Firefox icon, and a slot in the front, on the right side of the screen). I can't get these to stop reappearing.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I first downloaded the most recent Firefox (3.6.8)

That should read "along with the blue one..."

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