[tadpole]

Thanks for the reply davidfor. Before all this headache started, when I would load on a new book or books and then try to open collections, at the top of my list there was always a blank folder. For the longest it contained one book from one of my collections. But I would just delete the thing and go about as normal. Then one day I deleted the book that appeared in this folder and reloaded it and then put it in the proper collection. From then on the folder would still appear, but minus the book.

As for my current situation, I have sort of cheated. I guess due in part to my being somewhat impatient and wanting to get things back to where they were. I opened up a new kobo account and did yet another factory reset, but this time used the new account. And voila! No more collections! I did run into the problem of not being able to have the option of sorting my collections, but thanks to this forum and to you and Ogion I was able to add the missing text in the Kobo eReader.conf file and now all seems to be well. And there is no more blank collections folder either!

I still want to concur this kobo utility plug in for future reference. Since things have been going well, I have not gotten the courage to try it again. Guess that I should do that soon. After I get the download that you have provided. Thanks again!