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Holy cow! I did it. It's finally gone.
I actually extracted everything under UIFILE in shell32.dll with Resourcer, then I let Notepad++ search through all files for "FolderBand", which it would find in UIFILE 12, 27, 28, 32 and 46. Then I opened shell32.dll in XN Resource Editor under XP (VirtualBox) - for some reason it worked fine saving the changes in XP - and commented out the FolderBand parts in the relevant UIFILE files. Lastly, since I don't have any other OS besides W7 installed directly on this computer, I booted Ubuntu directly from a DVD, which allowed me to copy the modified shell32.dll into the System32 folder again.
My modified DLL (from W7 Ultimate x64) can be downloaded here, if desired.
Good luck! Keep me posted. :)