I can see hidden files

I formated my HD and installed Leopard from the beginning. I let it to upgrade from Internet and sync with Apple .mac to get my contacts/calendars...
After all that, I opened finder and my surprise was to see 13 folder in my HDD !!!.
I have checked and I have system files hidden, so I do not know how I can see all this. I have search here and found that there is a bug when restoring from images, but I did not do that.
How I set this files again to hidden???.
I can see: etc (link), tmp (link), var (link), bin , cores, private, sbin, usr and volumes.

Hi - to stop hidden files showing in Finder go to terminal (in utilities) and type:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
then press enter and type:
killall Finder
then press enter again. To make them show up again in finder do exactly the same, but substitute TRUE for FALSE in the first command.
Hope this helps.
p.s. be careful with hidden files - they are hidden for a reason!
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