Old Pre-Leopard Desktop Folder Lurking and Causing problems

I'm confused, is this supposed to happen? After wondering where all my downloads had gone, I realized the old desktop was still lurking on my computer. I only realized this because I had changed icons. Under "devices/macintosh hd" there is a desktop folder, the pre-leopard one, the current one doesn't exist there, just the pre-leopard one and the os9 folder. Is that normal? It causes problems sometimes when saving things from the internet or email applications. I have to be careful when choosing the location because saving to desktop will sometimes send it to the old one and the files then don't show up on my actual desktop. They also don't seem to appear in spotlight when this happens. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.
Message was edited by: texasstar7

If there's anything in the Desktop folder at the root level (Devices >> Machintosh HD) that you need, save it. Then, drag that folder to the trash. You can also drag the OS 9 folder to the trash. Do not empty the trash yet.
Restart and launch Safari. From Safari menu choose Preferences >> General and re-choose "Desktop" in "Save downloaded files to". If all is well with your downloads you can empty the trash.
On the OS 9 when you try to trash it, if the System Folder squawks and tells you it is "owned by the system" just drag the system folder out of the trash, open it, remove "system" file, After a restart the "system" file will delete.
-mj

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