dean:

you know... i was thinking about this and i came up with the same idea. i
just created a new user and copied over the the files using the public
folder. Then i poked around in the old user and i looked in the recycle and
there the junctions were! so i restored them and all seems OK. You need to
have visibility of all files turned on (hidden, system) in order to see
these babies in the recycle.

Anyway, i am going to use the new user i set up, but i am going to watch and
see what happens to the old user. Overall, Vista is interesting..but odd!!

thanks

BCY