problem:

i open "my documents" folder. i delete a file or folder within it. the file or folder deletes but the icon for the file or folder remains. if i press f5 to refresh my screen, the icon disappears.

the opposite happens also. if i rip a cd to a folder and have that folder open, the icons do not appear while the cd is being ripped. if i press f5 later, the icons appear.

this has been going on for just this past week. no installations have been done in quite a while.

any ideas what's going on?

thanks in advance.