"My Documents" in "My Places"

I am running Vista and Office 2003, and I had some Vista problems (now
resolved) with redirecting the documents folder to a new hard drive. Now,
however, when I do a file open in Microsoft Word, the "My Places" pane of the
file open dialog includes a manilla file folder icon for "My Documents". As
I remember (maybe wrong?) it used to be a green icon for "Documents". In
fact I can get that Icon in "my Places" by doing an "add to my places" when
documents is selected, but I then cannot remove the My Documents Icon. Is
that the way it is supposed to be or is there a way for me to get rid of the
My Documents icon?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Bob L.