Warez...repairing XP worked! I have my shortcuts now, thanks for your help.
Caused another problem though...before the repair, I installed IE7 Beta, was working fine. After the repair, IE7 no longer worked, got an error msg "The procedure entry point InternetGetSecurityInfoByURLW could not be located in the dynamic link library WINNET.dll". I went back into the IE7 install program and to try to unistall, but it said I had to do it through "Change remove programs under windows update", but the update was not in there to remove. I downloaded IE6 to try to use that instead, but told me there is a newer version of IE, so IE6 would not work.
Wondering if you had any ideas?
Thank you again!