New Window 7 VM on Mac OS X Lion

Hi All,

Thanks in advance for your expertise!

I created a VM of my Windows 7 laptop on my iMac yesterday, after having updated to Lion. Overall seems like a slick piece of software, the Coherence feature is just freaky, as is having Homeworld 2 running in a window on a Mac!

There are however a couple of issues which are seriously undermining usability, to do with files:

1) I cannot 'see' any of the files that should be in 'pictures', 'music' etc - by going down the directory tree in Windows Explorer for example. In particular therefore, the 'link' to the desktop background picture that is on my laptop is 'broken', so I just jave a black background. Equally, I cannot 'browse' to it again, or indeed to any other image file, since going down the directory tree structure, there appears to be 'nothing there'. Ive even tried 'importing' a photo from the mac, and although it shows up on the Windows 7 desktop, it isnt 'seen' in Windows Explorer when browsing the desktop, or any other folder for that matter.

Has Parallels not moved all my files, and just populated an 'empty' folder tree, or is something else going on? It took about 5 hours to migrate over a wired ethernet network, so I presumed everything should and would have been transferred.

2) It seems that Parallels is reciprocating the Mac desktop icons on the Windows & desktop (lots of .app folders), and the Windows desktop icons on the Mac (lots of folders and images). I dont want this at all - Id like to have uncluttered desktops, with independent sets of icons - how?

Many thanks,

Damian