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logicearth,
I keep reading the data in your link, but it doesn't really sink into my old thick skull. When I entered dir /al, it only showed the folders within users, which I do understand is in essence the "real" location of most entries, but it is obvious that some programs, which are not so oddball, like Opera, Sun Java, Skype and others ignore this file structure to some degree. For instance, Opera places it's folders in several places...some within the Program Files (x86) install folder, some in users, and some in Documents and Setting/username/App Data/Local/Opera.
I'm not certain, but it appears that this latter group is where the problem is, but it is also where certain customizations that I accustomed to must be done. In the past, Opera had a choice to use an installer that placed all program files within the folder created at install, but with Opera 10, that no longer appears to be true.
At this point, it seems that I'm going to have to attempt to delete the extraneous Application Data folders, and hope that this fixes the problem. The only alternative is to start over from scratch, as I feared at the beginning.
Situations like this have a tendency to fluster me, and sometimes I can't see the trees for the forest. I understand the words on your linked page, but if they present a solution, I'm not seeing it.