Finder has turned to complete jibberish and totally unusable!

Hi there!
This is my first post in the community. I have done a search for my issue, but cannot find a solution - or even the same problem. Maybe because I don't exactly know how to describe it.
First, my finder was SLOW to load. Then it quit loading large folders, like "Pictures" at all. Now when I launch Finder I get a scramble of screens/images all in a sort of patchwork design. Kinda cool to look at, but I am completely unable to use Finder. I have restarted the computer, relaunched Finder, etc., but to no avail. I saw one post about deleting the plist from the library,but since I cannot use Finder at all, I couldn't even try that.
Has anyone else experience this? Anything I can try before going to the computer shop?
Here is a screen shot of what is happening:
By the way, my computer is an older Macbook Pro, purchased in July 2007, and I am running Mavericks. I know this is the last upgrade I'll be able to do, but I'm not ready to spend the $$ to by a new Macbook just yet!
Thanks in advance,
Brenda

Thank you, Barry. I realized after I did it that I was clicking on my reply and not the right posting, but I couldn't find a way to delete it. I'm not looking for points, just thought it would be helpful to others to know what solution solved my problem.
Thanks again for taking the time to help!
Brenda

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