Trashed desktop icon and files

Please don't ask why or how - but I have trashed the desktop icon along with its files. It is the icon seen on the left after clicking on the desktop hard disk icon. It is with other icons like documents, movies, music, etc. I have tried to removed it from the trash and return it to it correct place but it won't allow me to do so. I have tried pulling the trashed files back to the desktop but when I click on a file I see the message "Unable to open because file is in trash".
Any suggestions?
  Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Hi James
Your post confuses me. Are you saying that you have trashed the Desktop icon from the very left hand of a Finder window, i.e. the Sidebar? If this is so, then that is not the actual Desktop folder, but just a link to the folder. It can be removed from the Sidebar, but not trashed.
Anyway, your Desktop files are now apparently residing in the Trash. Files in the Trash should be able to be just dragged out again. You cannot open a file in the Trash, but you should be able to open the Trash and then just drag the files back to the Desktop or wherever.
In an open Finder window, in column view, click once on your HD and then navigate through to users, "you". Is there a desktop icon there? Is there anything in it?
This all seems quite strange to me.
Matthew Whiting

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