My desktop is messed up ....

[decocritter]

out of order folders, not organized the way I had it, folders missing from desktop screen.

No one has access to this computer but me.

[Paul F.]

When you go to your User folder, and open the "Desktop" folder, what do you see?

I would run Disk Utility and Diskwarrior... lt's been quite a while, but last time I had a simillar issue, files started disappearing, and Diskwarrior saved my bacon from some serious directory damage.

[Lew Zealand]

Run DiskWarrior. Nobody likes to lose their bacon. It's too yummy!

I can't believe there's not a single bacon-related smiley here in the whole list… just sad…

[decocritter]

There are things in the user folder, but I don't think everything is there.

[hal]

stop using the machine and run disc warrior

[RAMd®d]

I would also do a Safe Boot- start up holding the Shift key fir a minute or two. When it finally boots, you should see Safe Boot in the login window.

Restart normally.

[modelamac]

Disk Warrior.

Also, you an compare your current Desktop with that of your Desktop on your bootable backup drive.