I have been using a PC for 25 years. I have ran university computer
labs. I have never seen this before. . . .

This is happening on my personal PC. I am running WinXP Pro, SP2,
Office 2003 SP 2 on a Dell Latitude D510. I almost always have a USB
drive attached.

I recently customized two folders in My Documents that had similar
names by adding different images to each in the thumbnail
display--Properties, Customize, Folder pictures, Choose picture. Now,
occasionally a folder that has not been customized will all of a
sudden have an image on it. Not an image contained within the folder
contents, but "randomly" picked from a different folder or even from a
different drive. This has happened on both the C: drive and on the
USB drive. Today a folder in My Documents had an image from the USB
drive. I can cause the image to disappear by going through the menu
and resetting the view to Restore default. I would rather this did not
happen however. Any suggestions to prevent this oddity would be
appreciated.

Bill