Okay, now this is annoying

So here's the sitch--the desktop support chick set up my work machine with WS_FTP Pro on it. All well and good, though I don't use the program and don't really have any need for it. But the thing is, its release notes file has been somehow mapped onto Notepad, such that if I go to Start/Run and type in notepad to launch it, and then come back later to the list of recently launched programs on said Start Menu, I see an icon off to that release notes file rather than, like, y'know, NOTEPAD.

I can circumvent this problem by launching Notepad off the Programs/Accessories menu, apparently. Which is fine. Except now I have an intellectual principle at stake here and I want to know what the hell was done to create this problem.

Here's what I've done:
1) Searched the registry for occurrences of whatsnew.txt to see if it got glommed into any notepad settings so far--no dice
2) Searched for .ini files containing whatsnew.txt--no dice
3) Tried to clear out my temporary files on the system on the theory that maybe something in one of those directories got munged--nada
4) Rebooted--nothing
5) Searched for all files with "notepad" in the name and verified on notepad.exe as well as various shortcuts pointing to it that the properties look right
6) Various combinations of keywords on Google--coming up dry so far
7) Gone to the site for WS_FTP and tried to search its knowledge base--nothing
8) Tried to search the Microsoft Knowledge Base for articles pertaining to Notepad--nothing

Anybody got any clever ideas?