HELP! Corel Draw 9 making hundreds of backup copies I cannot delete.

[Jonathan]

PLEASE HELP! I have been using Corel Draw 9 without any problems for 5
years. I had it installed on Windows Me and kept it when I upgraded to
Windows XP home edition 2 years ago.

All of a sudden yesterday, I couldn't make a good, clean .jpg exported
copy from good vector art. No matter what I did, the .jpg's came out
all pixilated and just wrong.

I ignored that and continued working and again, all of a sudden, I
noticed when I went to open a file that Corel had suddenly started to
make hundreds, yes, literally HUNDREDS of Auto backup and Backup and
Copies of backup files, all by itself. Like a bad movie, the more I try
to delete these files, the more they keep reappearing and reproducing
themselves with higher and higher numbers! I have copies in the high
200 numbers now!!

Can anyone out there tell me WHAT THE H*#L has happened??? What is
going on with my formerly reliable Corel Draw 9 and HOW do I STOP all
these flies from replicating themselves from the dead?? I have been
working on this for six straight hours!!! The only progress I can
report is that after re-booting, the problem with exporting a vector
file to a .jpg has disappeared as suddenly as it started, but the file
self-replication problem continues!

THANKS for any assistance... and Merry Christmas and/or Happy Chanukah
to all!