Side Bar Folder Disappears

I have a folder that I keep putting in my sidebar... and it keeps disappearing. There's nothing special about this folder; it's just work stuff that I have sitting in my home directory. I've tried renaming it and changing where in the position of the sidebar I've put it. It stays there for a few days and then it just goes away. Nothing else seems to disappear like this. Only this one folder. I've found nothing on the internet to help me with this either. I'm just stumped.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6) Serial # W8608****

I have been having this problem (MBP rev A). Same symptons, add a folder and then a couple of days later, it disappears from the sidebar. Can't figure it out what is happening. I have trashed both of the plist files, reset the sidebar (with Onyx). Nothing seems to work here. I haven't tried to make a new account, but don't really want to either.
Any other ideas out there?
TIA
MBP 2.16 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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