Favorite Windows XP adds each site visited to the Favorites list

An old friend recently swithced to an old computer running XP on a new computer running Windows 7.  I did a wireless transfer from his old computer to their new computer for him and everything went well.  However, he was unable to understand the novelty of Windows 7 and wanted his old computer in return.

Fortunately, society, he bought the computer of agreeded to a return and refund, so I did Windows 7 wirless back transfer to XP for him and then washed the new hard disk before returning.  Everything seemed to work well and was happy to have his old computer running again.  A lot of people more older don "t like oil changes, seems.

However, after three months had he told me something was wrong with his Favorites window.  Looking at it, I found that whenever he went to a favorite site had made a new entry with a tracking number.

Example, Drudge Report of in its favourites and every time has opened the site as a new link to the site has been registered. While his Drudge Report (1). Drudge Report (2), etc. until Drudge Report (67) all under Favorites.  It has been duplicated on all the favorite websites that he opened while he had accumulated about 300 entries Favorites for only 12 places on the Favorites.

I have never seen that happen before and that you can't find a reference to it in the help screens or the Forums.  The only thing I've done so far has been remove each of the duplicates individaully, one at a time as THS takes forever, and then another entry is regenerated whenever he visits a new site, so that it will never end.

The only thing I can guess is that, perhaps, its function of Favorites has been altered somehow duromg two transfers between computers. Anyone who is familiar with this type of proplem and have any suggestions on how to fix it?  Thank you.

Hello

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