Suddenly. folders

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

This is Fedora 8, nautilus version 2.20.0 release 9.fc8

When I booted F8/Gnome today, my desktop was littered with icons for 
the folders and files from my home directory. My installation is pretty 
much vanilla with regard to the desktop; previously all that was 
displayed was device icons. I am not aware of having changed any 
preferences.

Could someone kindly enlighten me as to how I might disable the display 
of home directory folders?

Thanks.