Keep seeing old wallpaper on startup/login

Almost every time I log in to my desktop, for a few seconds, I see an old wallpaper that I used a couple years ago. After a few seconds, it loads my current wallpaper. This is a little annoying, and worries me a little. I've changed my wallpaper several times since, yet this same picture from a couple years ago keeps popping up. Why is this happening? More importantly, what can I do to correct it?

Go to User>Library>Preferences>com.apple.desktop.plist and put the .plist in the trash and restart. Please post back with results.

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