avatar ghosts?

[John Beaman]

I thought I would tap in the world-wide computer technical knowledge that resides on this community for an odd problem I have.

I use Windows Vista on a 64-bit platform and Explorer 8. When I pull down the "favorites" list to select a site, 99% of the list has an avatar associated with the site, be it banks, news sites, or even TOCH. Several months ago, these avatars started exchanging themselves within the list. TOCH would become a bank, Hyperscale would be CNN, etc. Sometimes they go back to their correct avatars, sometimes not. There seems to be no pattern or timing for these changes. It does not affect the computer or the program's performance at all and the links are correct--just the avatar is different. Its just very odd.

Any thoughts?