THANKS FOR THE AWESOME TIP HUBBS! AND THANKS FOR UNDERMINING MY COMMON SENSE!!!! THANKS!!!!
now if you read my post carefully, I said "how do you get icq2000b from adding the folder "from icq" in your favorites everytime it starts?"
and thanks for the suggestion daniel (this is not sarcastic), but I need a more permanent way...like tweaking the registry or something.