Background Pictures Changes to Default

Each time I reboot my iMac (not very often), my desktop picture always reverts to the Leopard Default, my Macbook doesn't suffer this fate, I've looked everywhere and cant see what is causing this odd behaviour.
Has anyone else out there suffered the same problem and found a way to resolve it?

Its probably being caused by some sort of corruption wither in a cache file or in the disk directory. Have you tried all the basic troubleshooting steps like those listed in this FAQ?
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html

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