Desktop Picture Unchangeable - SysPrefs Crashes

OS X.5 changed my background... grr... but that's ok, I'll just change it back, right?
WRONG.
I can get to screen saver, but when I click on the desktop tab in system preferences, it loads three nature pictures, and then crashes.
Needless to say, I'm pretty frustrated. This purple is fugly. Looks like Halo 2 decided to have a Catholic parade on my desktop.

could be a corrupt preference file. delete the file /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and log out/in. then try setting desktop picture again.

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