I can't change my desktop or screen saver photos, what is wrong?

Mac Mini running OS X Yosemite update 10.10.2 installed 2nd Feb 2015. I went to change my desktop photo, the pane came up with the normal choice of set photos & the oblong to put the required photo into but nothing having selected a photo it would not move . I shut down the page & next time tried to get pane up a drop down notice appeared saying "cannot load desktop & screensaver pane". I tried unlocking the system preferences padlock to no avail also shutting the machine down & leaving it a few minutes. I am very careful about not opening phishing emails. The last one was From"HMRC. as far as I can see everything else is good & I have verified permissions as per disc utility. That is about the limit of my expertise.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash. Log out or restart the computer and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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