Strange Folders In Preferences

I have two users with strange folders inside ~Library/Preferences
In this location there are dozens of zero KB folders with random garbled names, such as these 4 examples contained in quotes:
"˙jt"
"˙ù†"
"˙ùÃ"
"˛
Note, there is a return in the last one.
Does anyone have any idea what these are?

That was a smokin' link Niel! Good find.
They are both Photoshop CS2 users. One user does likely have TWAIN drivers installed because he has at least a couple of scanners. The other user I don't think has a scanner. But I could be wrong about that.
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*Relevant Environment Information (OS & version, java or .net & version, DB & version):
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*Sporadic or Consistent (if applicable): Consistent for SP3, does not appear on SP2
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