Terminal opens when clicking desktop from finder window

I don't know when started to happen, but when I open a window of Finder, and click in the left sidebar to see what is in Desktop, it didn't show in the right panel, it open a Terminal window.
If I click Applications, or Music, it works good, but not with Desktop.
Any ideas? I alredy installed Lion again 3 times, but when restoring from Time Machine, it starts to doing that.
Thank's!

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy – do not type – the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
ls -@Odel ~/Desktop
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered – the text, please, not a screenshot. If your user name appears in the output, anonymize it for privacy's sake.

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