Phantom DVD files (?!?)

O.k., I'm working on converting avis to DVD, recently created a project and tried to check it with DVD player. It said could not open due to files not supported. Trashed project by deleting files and emptying my trash. Chalked it up to corrupt avi's.
Began another project.
When I opened DVD player to check these, it prompted "previously viewed cd" and asked my where to play from... Puzzled, I clicked on "Last viewed" and began to watch the trashed project begin to play out (?!?)
Am currently trying to find the file tree to where this is, no luck.
Any ideas?

Can anyone help me with this? I've now used up my ONE restore disk creation... and it doesn't work. Is there any other way to test this? It looks like junk when I boot from it.
Can I make a windows restore disk instead? Would that put win7 back without all the HP bloatware?
I'm assuming HP's little program was faulty and they don't care, so I have nothing. The program itself proclaimed itself successful after it finished. Unfortunately the netbook didn't agree...

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