tigerlady good question. We all have our own ways or ideas as to what organized is.

I use one Tabbed Dock that has five tabs: System Tray, Taskbar, Applications, Security and General. You can guess that General gets the "Don't know where to put these" icons. The rest are easy to figure out. You can break the Applications down if you have special interests i.e Photography. Skinning etc.
This way I don't have one Icon on the desktop. I have the Recycle Icon on the Zoomer Dock.

You could probably break the single Tabbed Dock down to two or more if you wanted and have them around the edges of your desktop. I have the Tabbed Dock at the top and set as a drawer that way all you see is the tabs. The Zoomer Dock is always hidden of screen unless I move over to it to use it.

I was going to post a screenshot, but you have been around here long enough that you know how this stuff works and looks. I happen to like a clean desktop as far as Icons go. Leaves more room for DX Widgets and Objects and all that other stuff.   

I have 7 tabbed docks across the top of my screen, all single tab drawers, and one zoomer on the bottom.

Tabs:

ODNT: all the ODNT programs

My Stuff: my docs, my programs, my computer, etc.

Internet: anything that takes me to the internet

Programs: all my skinning programs, GIMP, Paint, Terragen, etc.

Media: Xion, Media Player, etc.

Office: all the office programs

Utilities: CCleaner, Windirstat, Notepad, calculator, etc.

On the zoomer I have folders I access more than a few times a day, a clock and the weather.

Yep, that's about how long it takes to get it just right!  

General..one of these days I'll chabge this to Stardock as thats where they are.

Applications...everything else.

Office...canned vista crap

Internet...Msn, browsers and mIRC

Games...well...

WOW! You've all given me some great ideas. Thanks...now all I have to do is get the set-up done and FINALLY clear the icons off my desktop.