Tried to Copy Files Into Home Folder

I tried to drag all the folders into my Home Folder to clean things up. I copied my Pictures Folder, my Documents Folder, my Music Folder, my Movies Folder into the Home folder.
Is there some place to read about what should be where and how to start to clean up my duplications and alias's
I would like to thank you in advance for your help with this matter.

I am sorry for the confusion...I don't know the correct terminology.
I am calling the finder window the 'dock' and what is the dock I call the docking station.
You are correct. I copied everything into the home folder trying to clean up the finder window
So my trouble is with the Finder
(this is what I see in the first column of the finder window after the list of hard drives on my system)
Desktop
Home Folder (whg2000)
Documents (info says it is folder but wierd icon/logo - not a folder with a picture in it)
Applications (with the A logo icon not the folder Icon) (inside this folder is all my apps but also an alias of the applications folder but when I highlight this alias I have a duplicate of all the contents of the applications folder)
Library Folder (with the library logo icon on the folder)
Pictures (just a folder no active logo or icon on folder)
Music (just a folder no active logo or icon on folder)
Sites (just a folder no active logo or icon on folder)
Public (just a folder no active logo or icon on folder)
Movies (just a folder no active logo or icon on folder)
(and then if I click on the home folder this is what I have inside my home folder)
Bill-Work-Folder (folder where I keep all my stuff)
Burn Folder (with burn logo / icon)
Desktop
Documents ( folder with the active logo icon....the contents of this folder match the contents of the documents folder on the dock)
home certify.txt (not a folder)
Library Folder (with the library icon/logo)
(and then this is what is in my Trash folder which is in the bottom of the dock, I had dragged stuff into the trash in attempt to clean it up)
Sites Folder
Public Folder (withthe logo/icon)
Pictures Folder (just fodler no icon/logo)
Movies Folder (with movies logo /icon)
Music Folder (with music logo / icon)
I hope this can still be fixed and cleaned up, thank you

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