Help! need help w/ terminal...

my friend borrowed my computer to try and rip videos from their ipod to my computer then move them to another ipod...anyway, she typed something in terminal and now i have a "network", "servers", ".DS_Store" icons on my desktop and seemingly everywhere else...all my other icons are dim...how can i fix this?
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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Below is the article with the code in it i copied, it's from wikipedia.
Thanks for your help.
It's here (look under Trivia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposé%28Mac_OSX%29
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Ah, thanks
Before, i tried it but didn't put the Killall dock thing in ^_^;
funny how these things can seem so obvious once you know the answer, eh? ^__^;;;
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Wikipedia article tells how to undo these settings.
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in Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app):
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true
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true with false.
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commands into a Terminal window:
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false
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command into the Terminal
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false
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That is, enter the following commands in a Terminal
window:
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true
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