AzDude,
Thank you! That worked! The only downside was that doing it this way I lost and had to recreate my configuration for my icons and I lost my established folder portals. Since I have had for some time these configurations containing "many" icons... it took me a while to reorganize my desktop it being quite a mess of about a hundred or so of overlapping, scattered icons. 😬
But it was a good opportunity to do some house cleaning... and now it is done so I'm glad you encouraged me to do it.
Thanks much!