Desk Top Locked ?

This is not exactly Finder and Dock question but there seemed to be no where else to ask. I suspect this is an easy fix and hope so. On my Desk Top, I cannot move the files around. I click and hold to move them but I get one of those Circles with a line through it. Also, for an email message, I cannot select a file from the desktop but I ca do a drag and drop of the file into the message. Finally, I cannot do a drag and drop from a CD/DVD onto the desk Top but the file will go into other files. I think I may have hit some type of lock command. But the Info on the Desk Top does not have the little box for LOCK checked.
The program had been working fine before.
Thanks!
Jim

Thanks but how do I get to Desk Top Preferences? I guess a more fundamental problem is that I don't know how to open the Desk Top from the situation it is now in. If I click on Desk Top it has me Choose Application and then it shows "Utilities" on the selection list. How do I open it? If I have two fingers on the pad and click, again it asks what to open with.
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You: There is no Set up.exe running listed on the page
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You: Now at 2.30 minutes remaining
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== This happened ==
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