Places Menu

[Jean Dewald]

Hello,

After years of Windows (and totally disgusted by Vista), I recently
switched to Ubuntu 8.10.

I shouldn't say the conversion was without problems, but I feel much
more confortable in Ubuntu environment.

For the moment I bother about 2 problems (please don't laugh, they are
probably stupid):

1) Suddenly, in the Places menu, the 3 first items (Home Folder,Desktop,
Bookmarks) started the gtkpod program.
I could delete the reference "open with gtkpod" but of course now I got
the error "Could not open the location file:///home/...  
No application is registered as handling the file"

Some suggestion? 
Why this sudden change?

2) I use the European date format dd/mm/yy.
After a couple of hours searching I still didn't find where to select
that format?

Thanks for help 

Jean