Utilities folder automatically opens during startup

I'm pretty bitter towards Macintosh ever since I took my laptop to the " 'Genius' Bar " and they accidentally erased all of the data on my computer, so I would be extremely grateful if someone could help me with this.
I downloaded Microsoft Office 2008 today. Of course, I had the infamous keygen problem with Safari. I found the solution to that in another post: I went to Macintosh HD>my home directory>Library>Preferences, where I deleted the file "com.apple.keychainaccess.plist" and restarted my computer.
The Safari keygen problem is fixed, but now whenever I turn on my computer, the Utilities folder opens up automatically. How do I fix that so it doesn't keep popping up whenever I turn on my computer?
Thank you!

runlntoflowers wrote:
yes! thank you so much! i never would have known to do that.
Glad I could help!
Thanks for the !

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