JPEG instructions?

Hi,
Occasionally a desktop picture comes up on my second monitor that I didn't put there. I can't find the picture anywhere on my Mac.
I pulled it from the Desktop Preference pane onto my desktop and did a get info on it. It's a JPEG with "instructions" on it. This instruction takes the form of a string of upper and lower case letters and numbers. The picture? Essentially a very poor shot of a long haired dogs backside while standing on its rear two legs in what looks like a horse stall. You can't see its upper body and its not a crude picture just very grainy and somewhat distorted. I have a feeling that these "instructions" on the jpeg, which I've never encountered before, are the reason it pops up from time to time as a desktop picture and may also be the reason I can't find the source file anywhere, even though in the preference pane it has a name that's just numbers but I can't find it in Spotlight or Find.
I know this sounds bizarre, and believe me it truly is. Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on here?
Thanks

OK, mystery solved. Evidently Flickr installed a folder with some images and then added its folder to the choices in System Prefs->Desktop and Screensaver. While its perfectly possible to edit a plist, in this case I think the plist is goofed up in several different ways. Just remove it from the Preferences folder, then launch System Prefs, open the Desktop and Screensaver section, and reset things the way you prefer them to be. This will create a new plist file with a new set of preferences, which will only include the monitor you have running and the choices you make.
The reason it didn't show up when you searched for it is because the file in question is inside your home ~/Library folder. For reasons best known to some project manager at Apple, they decided to exclude by default most system files from showing up in Spotlight results, and also decided that the ~/Library folder's contents are system files. At least the files ARE indexed, but in order for them to appear you have to explicitly tell Spotlight you want to see system files, and that YES you want them included. For directions on how to do this, and perhaps some other handy hints on the new improved Spotlight, see my article here:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html
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