Now sidebar is showing my folders multiple times!!! Please help

Hi,
Well after messing around with the Downloads icons and trying to copy and paste it to another icon (see my post below) I have now found that for some strange reason all of the folders in my sidebar under 'Places' are being displayed multiple times.
I rebooted the machines and it created even more icons for them!! I now have 2 Applications, 2 Desktop, 2 Documents, 2 Downloads, 4 Movies, 4 Music, 4 Pictures, 2 Home and 4 Trash icons.
I tried dragging some off the sidebar but after rebooting even more appeared. Gonna try rebooting again.
If someone know what to do please can you let me know?
Thank you,
Shams.

Ok well after dragging the extra icons off and then rebooting a 2nd time it seems to have worked.
Just out of curiosity and in case the problem resurfaces, isn't deleting that co.apple.sidebarlists.plist file a very bad thing to do?? Or will it be recreated on booting up again?
Thanks for the advice.
Shams.

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