All desktops and icons/wallpaper disappear after updating

My main desktop icons/wallpaper dissappear when I swipe to a different desktop/fullscreen App like Mail or iCal. Mission control shows nothing but a blank desktop. If you blindly click around I can find my documets/folders on the desktop. You can even create a new folder but it dissapers too. It appears to be covered by a dark grey desktop that is hiding everything. This happened right after I updated today.

Sorry, missed the part about updating to lion.
Mine is doing this but not from an update.
I was dragging photos to a file and must have let go of them without realizing it. {BTW, didn't mean to do this} Window said it was copying, from finder and I'm assuming it meant to the desktop. My computer copied some but not all. I relaunched finder and everything on my desktop disappeared. When tapping on the screen/desktop, hard-drive and files will reappear.   When pulling files/hard-drive from my computer and placing on desktop, they will disappear when the original file pops up.   When computer is shut down and restarted, I go through the same thing. I ran disk repair and the test from the install disk and nothing is wrong.
So, what do I do to correct this and keep my hard-drive/files on my desktop?
{My hard-disk is checked in finder/preferences}
iMac
   iMac6,1
   Intel Core 2 Duo
2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache (per processor):          4 MB
Memory:          1 GB

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