How to un-fill workspace background, PSE 8 for Mac

I just bought v. 8 for Mac, and there is no checkbox in Prefs to get rid of the 'fill workspace background', its keeping me from using v. 8, as I cannot see my desktop.
Here is a screenshot to show what is wrong,
http://www.jcdouglass.net/images/no-yes.jpg
If you can help me get rid of this annoying thing, I will be very happy to use the new version,
Thank you,
Jane

Hi Barbara,
Thank you!   Weve been struggling with this, they sure fooled me by changing the way to do it.
I would think that Fill Workspace would be better working than Application Frame, as it sure isnt a frame in my book.
But you saved the day for us, as you always do!
2 more interesting things, when I use this forum with Firefox 3.5.5 for Mac or Opera 10.10, when I click Post Message, I get an error message that there is no body to the message, but found that using Safari is the fix for that one.
And Adobe forums would not recognize my old username, email, Adobe ID #, nor my password on this new Mac. I couldnt figure that one out, as it works fine on my old Mac, but this new one, whew, I had to re-sign up. But I am the old Jane from years ago from Cape Cod.
And we have a new Yellow Lab, a girl named Lilly.
Thank you again!
I will post the answer on our classroom forum immediatly.
Jane

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