Finder duplicates list of folders in sidebar

Need help. My Finder is acting weird. It's duplicating the list of folders in the sidebar, making it an unnecessarily big window. It's just a mess. I've tried to change preferences, relaunched...
Any idea anyone ?
Thanks
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thanks for the answer. Here's my report:
1. "Repair Disk Permissions" from Disk Utility
Done, not useful
2. Delete
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist[
/b]
done, not useful
3. Delete
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Done, not useful...
4. Create a new user account and try things there.
other users do not have this problem. Is there anything I could try on my account ?
Thanks
-_F.
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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