There's no real problem with putting files where you want them in Win7. You can create folders and put files in them anywhere. The problem is that when you put them where you want them they may (sometimes) also be "mirrored" elsewhere (My Documents, My Pictures, etc) and if let the the files be put in those places by default you can't really tell if that's where they are or if it's just a "reflection" of where they really also are somewhere else.

I just put them where I want them and ignore the "My Cute Names" folders (which appear in at least two - redundant - places in Win Explorer, both of which are the same place but are mirrors of each other, mostly).

I've seen reports that the "My Places" mirrors can be "removed" in Win7, at least, but the instructions seem to have disappeared from MSDN and I haven't found the copy that I thought I made. (Search topic might have been "Libraries" which is an alternate name for "sickeningly cute and useless" locations. ??)

John