Profile/My Documents issue

I'm setting up my new Dell Computer with WinXP. On the first
day a bunch of programs disappeared from the system tray,
although they were still running in the background. Dell
tech support said that the way the problem was showing
itself seemed somewhat unique (we worked on it for an hour,
it seemed). They said that the profile evidently was
corrupted, and they recommended that since I had not yet
installed very many programs and had not transferred any
data as yet, the best solution was simply to delete my user
profile and start over. Sounded fine to me. We did it
several days ago and everything now works ok.

Here's the only issue. In the original set up I named my
user account "Bob." The way Dell approached the issue was to
first create a new account, which they called "Test." They
then deleted the old "Bob" profile and renamed "Test" as
"Bob."

As stated, the new profile is now fine. But the path to My
Documents is now through "Test" rather than through "Bob":
that is, it's located at "C:\Documents and Settings\Test\My
Documents," even though when I look in User Accounts through
the Control Panel the account appears as "Bob." Dell tells
me that this is because My Documents keeps the path name as
originally set up, and that nothing can be done about it.

Now when I do things that require a path name through My
Documents, I have to use "Test," not "Bob." This is a petty
annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.

Is there any way to "fix" this?

Thanks.
--

Bob S.
.

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