Mavericks desktop background defaults after restart

I change my desktop background (cause as nice as the blue and green wave is it's not my cup of tea) and as soon as i restart my mac it defaults back again.
I have deleted the 'com.apple.desktop.plist' file and that didn't make the slightest bit of difference!
Any help would be appreciated. I know its a trivial thing really but it's driving me nuts!

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.desktop.plist. Move the .plists to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plists from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plists to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
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