Yes, I am sure. However changing the association has fixed this problem.

To date I have had no further problems

Thanks for your help.

Quoting "Sebastien Bacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> you confirm that the current intrepid creates buggy configuration? are
> you sure you didn't have that configuration in hardy?
>
> --
> opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260492
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in Nautilus: Fix Released
> Status in ?nautilus? source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> After using 'upgrade-manager -d" to Intrepid, something during the  
> upgrade prosses unintentionally hijacked our configurations to  
> launch various programs in-place of nautilus for opening folders  
> from the places menu.
>
> I do not believe that the package 'gnome-panel' is necessarily at  
> fault, but don't have a clue where the root cause is as I don't  
> understand how the places menu works, however Tuomas Aavikko's  
> workaround gave me success in fixing the issue:
>
> Right click on a folder in nautilus ->Open with app-> File Manager
>
> Now I can open my home folder from the places menu again. So it  
> seems that there is a file extension for folders that is being  
> hijacked by the installation / upgrade of other packages such as  
> VLC, gthumb, totem, amarok, kaffeine, Konqueror, Archiver Manager.  
> (compiled from comments and duplicate of this bug.)
>

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