Odd Folder behaviour in Lightroom 1.2

Hello!
I noticed a really weird thing in my Lightroom folders structure today. I am on Mac and here is what I saw:
- the following things appeared on my Folder list:
Contents at /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu
Contents at /System/Library/Image Capture/
Resources - Kodak_DC5000.icns
And they act like normal folders! There are my photos inside of those, whereas my original folders disappeared. But not from my disk, only from the list of folders inside Lightroom.
Please help!
Tomasz

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