ls unexpectedly listing subdirectory contents at /usr/bin

1. ave a number of i586-mingw32msvc-* files in my /usr/bin directory. 2. I moved them to a subdirectory named i586-mingw32msvc. 3. Now if I do ls i5* under /usr/bin, I get the contents of the i586-mingw32msvc subdirectory -- how is this? If I move only some of the i5* files to the subdirectory, I get: i586-mingw32msvc: . .. http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-02-26 W08-7 UTC+0530