Desktop Picture won't change....

My girlfriend just re-installed mac osx 10.3.9 on her ibook, and put some images on the computer to use as desktop pictures. Not only do they not change to them, but none of the pre-installed apple desktops work either. What could be the cause of this?
Thanks,
Steve

Probably she has to check the owner settings and repair the user rights. If that doesn't help, delete the finder.plist and restart. Still no change, create a new user account and try to change the desktop picture in this account.
It should work.
Just my 2 cents.
Greetings, ilikejapan

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