Gost icon in sidebar finder

Hi all,
I just got a new macbook pro and I did migrate from my old macbook pro (both 13" the old one is less than 2 yeqrs old and was running snow leopard)
I had in my sidebar shortcuts to a few folders and after the migration, on the new computer, they simply do not fonction anymore I can't click on them to open the folder and I definitely can't take them out of the sidebar (incidently the drag-out from the sidebar do not work for any folder or icon present in my sidebar)
I tried erasing both com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.sidebarlists.plist in user/library/Preferences then rebooting but it didn't work. The sidebar got reset but the gost icons are still there.
One precision (I don't know if it's important or not) The three gost icons comes from my dropbox main folder. I should add that my main dropbox folder is also in the sidebar but is not affected.
How can I get rid of those ?
I'm running OSX 10.6.7 on a 2,3Ghz i5 macbook pro 13"
Thanks in advance for your help :-)
Jon

Glad to help.
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