Desktop shortcut malfunction

[Guest cg]

I use WindowsXP. My shortcuts for my xl spreadsheets have started giving me

errors such as: can't find c:\documents.xls. I click ok and then it says:

can't find c:\and.xls. I click ok and then it says: can't find

c:\setting.xls. and so on. it continues on between each word in the pathname

but the spreadsheet opens in the end. Does anyone know how to fix this?