Change desktop picture automatically doesn't work

Hi
I am trying to use the System Preferences Destop Picture "Change Picture automatically" every day feature. I want it to select a picture automatically at random every day from the folder I set. This does not seem to work. If I set it to "every day", it seems to just always pick the same photo--it never changes it. I tried yesterday setting it to "every login", since I login every day, and now no photos show up.
The Console has a whole bunch of the message :
2006-09-10 14:46:22.741 SyndicationAgent[284] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Sat 09 Sep 2006 13:53:23 -800'
Could that be part of the problem? Anyone else have trouble with this feature?
I am using two screens, and trying to set the picture on each from a different folder. Maybe that is the problem?
Thanks
Bob

I have two monitors and it works fine. It is possible that there is something wrong with the preference files, so the system is unable to correctly read them. Try removing these two files:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist"
"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist"
Then redo your settings, log out and back in and see if it works. If it does you can toss the old plists. You'll probably have to redo some other settings in System Preferences to put them the way you prefer.
Francine
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