Certificates: Several nodes in the applet's tree list are just box characters

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When I run the Certificates applet (certmgr.msc), the tree list of various categories of certificates has three first-level nodes that are composed of squarebox characters, so the tree list looks like:

Certificates - Current User
|_ Personal
|_ Trusted Root Certification Authorities
|_ Enterprise Trust
|_ Intermediate Certificate Authorities
|_ Active Directory User Object
|_ Trusted Publishers
|_ Untrusted Certificates
|_ Third-Party Root Certification Authorities
|_ Trusted People
|_ #
|_ #
|_ #####k

In the above, the # character was used to represent the squarebox character displayed in the applet's tree nodes. Selecting them shows no object types under those nodes.

Are the first 9 nodes from Personal to Trusted People the only ones that should show up in the tree list? Or am I missing some categories? When I go into Internet Options -> Content -> Certificates, the tabs listed at the top for the certificate categories are:

Personal
Other People
Intermediate Certification Authorities
Trusted Root Certification Authorities
Trusted Publishers
Untrusted Publishers

So this list has 6 categories while the Certificates MMC applet has 9 (plus the 3 malnamed ones). If I run the MMC applet (mmc.exe) and add the Certificates snap-in for current user and another for local computer, I see the nodes with the squarebox characters.

Besides the certs that are added during Windows XP installation, the only cert added since then is for EFS (for my account).

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