Finder Picture Background Not Working?

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to set a photo background to a few folders in finder, but it isn't working. The background remains white when I try to enable a picture background. The color backgrounds work fine, but the picture background simply refuse to work. I've restarted the computer, restarted finer, used pictures that are in the same folder as the one I want the background to be on. I just don't know what to do and I'd really like to set it.
Can anyone help me...

Did Disk Utility report any problems? If it did, did it repair them? I think what often happens with updates gone awry is a computer is having minor problems, then an update inadvertently overwrites some critical file and that minor problem is major.
Another thing to try is to start in Safe Mode. This will do a few things that Disk Utility doesn't, though I am not overly optimistic.
[Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393]
[What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X)|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392]
[Safe Boot takes longer than normal startup|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107394]
Safe boot mode runs a directory check command similar to that used by Disk Utility's repair. In Tiger it ignores some stored information (cache) that is normally read that speeds up the boot process, and it moves some other caches to the trash. It also uses only System fonts and disables all Startup Items, third party items, and any Login Items.
Do you have a different account? Do you have problems in that account?
If all works well in the other account and/or when using Safe Mode it is possible your Finder preferences have become corrupt. Try moving:
Home (your User name) > Library > Preferences > com.apple.finder.plist
to the desktop and restart your computer. This file saves the settings for that service and may be come corrupt. Removing it from the Preferences folder will result in a new file being created with default settings. If this helps you can trash the file but you may need to reset other things covered by that preference. If it doesn't help you can replace the newly created file with the old one and restart to regain the old settings.
Failing those things, your best bet is to use Archive and Install, selecting to keep settings and files.

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