Finder Window Background Colours

I have recently upgraded my old PowerBook G4 to a MacBook 2Ghz - Black.
Setting all my preferences finder window background colours, icon sizes etc for all windows is fine.
I have copied all my image files from the PowerBook to the MacBook, but when I increase the icon sizes for a particular window (selecting this window only) to view image thumbnails better the background colour changes to a bright orange or purple at the same time.
Does anyone have any idea's, I have thought about re-installing OS X again and starting from scratch, but this can't be needed with a Mac can it????????
Thanks
Chris

I can suggest two solutions:
1) You delete all .DS_Store files from the offending folders. The files are invisible so it is a bit of a chore.
Paste this Applescript in Script Editor and run it, then select your folder to remove all the invisible files I mentioned.
set mountedDisk to POSIX path of (choose folder)
tell application "Terminal"
if (count of windows) is 0 then do script ""
delay 0.1
do script "find " & quoted form of mountedDisk & ¬
" -name .DS_Store -delete" in front window
end tell
2) Make a new folder and move all your files to that folder.

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How can i change the background colour of all folder windows at once

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> Have tried to sort this through a CSS forum, but am now
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created a graphic
> (from a photo) in Freehand and given it the same
background colour. They
> blend beautifully in IE and Safari and Mac, but in
Windows IE the
> background
> shows as a different colour (pale yellow), although the
graphic is fine.
> It
> looks like the CSS is ok, but someone has pointed out
thatn doing a screen
> capture in irfanview from Opera on windows, the page
background has RGB
> values
> 254,255,222 while the background in the outer parts of
the spiral gif
> image is
> 251,251,225. Both have been selected using the
cross-application colour
> palette on my Mac which still shows as #FEFFDE. Help!
I'm pretty new at
> this
> so may be missing something obvious, but would be
grateful for advice.
> Kind regards,
> Steph (NZ)
>

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