I can confirm that the problem still exists. I upgraded from hardy to intrepid RC1 on Oct 25th, and ever since baobab was started whenever I clicked a location under the Places menu. I resolved this simply by removing the following problematic line in .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:
[Added Associations] inode/directory=baobab-usercreated.desktop; -- opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs