Comment 2 for bug 385917

The windows desktop folder is still intact, and the desktop settings have never changed, so as to what caused them to disappear, I don't know. I have downloaded a fresh 64 bit copy, and am going to uninstall the 32 bit version of 9.04, and install the 64 bit version.
After manually re-installing a few desktop shortcuts to windows, I am going to install the 64 bit version using the same method I did the 32 bit version. I will report back here what my results are.