Missing volume for "movies" after backup.

Hi,
My problem is as follows:
I recently re-installed my 10.5 and did a TimeMachine backup restore after.
Unfortunatly the backup did not include the "movie" - folder that residents in "user". (I have a "bypass" on this folder in my TimeMachine-backup because the many gigabytes that very often gets changed in the moviefolder and I forgot to do safety-backup on it)
So.... now I dont have any "movies"-folder under "user" from the finderwindow and when I try to put a new folder there the link to "movies"-icon in finderwindow does not work. It says that "The volume for "movies" cannot be found".
How can I restore this link?
How can I get my "movie"-folder back with the original folder-icon and get it to link with icon in finder-window?
I have tried to repair the disk from installation-dvd (disk-utility) but no luck!
I´m VERY thankful for any help!
Sincerely
/Richard

I'm not sure if I've fully understood the problem.
You can certainly put a new folder into your home folder and call it Movies. Is it that you had your Movies folder in your Finder sidebar and now you find that you click on that you get an error? If so pull that icon out of the sidebar so it disappears and drag your new Movies folder to sidebar instead.
To get the proper Movie folder icon I would suggest temporarily making a new account with admin privileges. Log on to that account and it will have the OSX created Movies folder. Create a new untitled folder and change its permissions so that everyone has read and write. Then copy/paste the icon from the Movies folder to that folder. Then drop that folder into the home folder of your usual account. Now log back on as that account and copy/paste the icon from the folder you just transferred to your new movies folder. I would trash the transferred folder and empty trash before deleting the account you just created to be sure that permissions don't get stuffed up.
Of course, maybe someone knows a source for Apples standard icon suite?

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