New Macbook Pro Retina keeps changing desktop wallpaper

Every time i turn on my macbook the desktop wallpaper has resets to its original wallpaper that it uses when you turn on the mac when you first buy it. I have tried changing it to one of the provided wallpapers in the system preferences and ones from my iPhoto but it still changes back to the default wallpaper when i turn it off and on.
Its a brand new macbook pro with retina display, I've only had it 2 weeks. Does anyone now how to fix this or is it a fault with the mac?
Thank you

Hi all,
I have had this same issue with OS X Lion and it continued on to OS X Mountain Lion as well. I have had the wallpaper switching on me to the default solid blue color whenever I restarted (every month or so) and when switching between users (every other day or so). So this issue was very frustrating having to go back in and reset the wallpaper to my preference whenever I switched to either user. I found a solution that has been working for me for several restarts and several switching of users now:
First, I took some of your advice by locating all of my wallpapers into a 'Wallpaper' folder located in each user's 'Documents' directory. I copied to same wallpapers to each user so both user's have the same wallpapers to choose from.
Then, I installed the latest stable version of 'OnyX' (freeware software). I used OnyX on both user accounts to run through practically all the settings to clean up the entire Mac (Mac Mini, mid 2011) including: Verify [S.M.A.R.T. Status, Structure of volume, and Preferences], Maintenance [Permissions], Cleaning [System cache, User cache, Internet cache, Fonts cache, Log cache, Misc. cache]. I generally left the default checked boxes alone and didn't change any settings and Executed the program to run as default.
After running OnyX, I re-set my wallpapers for each user and went ahead and tested the restarting of the computer and switching back and forth between users. It was very easy to duplicate the bug previously, but now I could not get the wallpaper to switch back to the default blue as before. Everything seems stable with my wallpaper selection now.
Hope this helps someone. Thanks everyone for your input too.
As a side note, my Mac is running much smoother and quicker now too.  =)

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    0xffffff8106ebbd50 : 0xffffff7f80893528
    0xffffff8106ebbdc0 : 0xffffff7f80893d9f
    0xffffff8106ebbe20 : 0xffffff7f808654c5
    0xffffff8106ebbe60 : 0xffffff7f80865628
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    0xffffff8106ebbf70 : 0xffffff800063c0f4
    0xffffff8106ebbfb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
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    com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.4)[D0A1F6BD-E66E-3DD8-9913-A3AB8746F422]@0 xffffff7f80856000->0xffffff7f8088efff
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    Mac OS version:
    11G63
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: FF3BB088-60A4-349C-92EA-CA649C698CE5
    System model name: MacBookPro10,1 (Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 11789545851692
    last loaded kext at 1166823769288: com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard       160.7 (addr 0xffffff7f807ca000, size 20480)
    last unloaded kext at 191900317684: com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController   1.0.1b1 (addr 0xffffff7f81921000, size 20480)
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    at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch     3854
    com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch       70.12
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
    com.apple.filesystems.autofs          3.0
    com.apple.driver.AGPM       100.12.75
    com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler  2.0.5d3
    com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim          5.0.0d8
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC         1.59
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver   122
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA           2.2.5a5
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient       3.5.9
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver         2.2.5a5
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD4000Graphics     7.3.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC  5.0.0d8
    com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet     1.0.0d1
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          4.0.8f17
    com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
    com.apple.GeForce   7.3.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU   2.0.1d2
    com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver  1.2.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl          3.1.33
    com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl        3.1.33
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl        1.0.33
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferCapri   7.3.2
    com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController           4.0.8f17
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons      227.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard  227.6
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless  1.0.0d1
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
    com.apple.BootCache           33
    com.apple.driver.XsanFilter            404
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage         2.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331         561.7.22
    com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC          1.2.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub     5.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM            1.6.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort   2.3.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI   5.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBXHCI   1.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager    161.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons         1.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleRTC            1.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleHPET         1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS     1.9
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC      1.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC           1.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient       195.0.0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 3.2.30
    com.apple.security.quarantine       1.4
    com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet    8
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement     195.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard  160.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard       160.7
    com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver  4.0.8f17
    com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 231.4
    com.apple.kext.triggers       1.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.2.1
    com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib         2.2.5a5
    com.apple.iokit.IOSurface    80.0.2
    com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily       10.0.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily       1.8.6fc18
    com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib     1.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController      2.2.5a5
    com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily         2.2.5a5
    com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl   3.1.33
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0
    com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert   1.0.4
    com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin        5.1.1d6
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMC           3.1.3d10
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily           5.1.1d6
    com.apple.nvidia.nvGK100hal       7.3.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController  1.0.10d0
    com.apple.NVDAResman     7.3.2
    com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport    2.3.4
    com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily  2.3.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController       4.0.8f17
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily            4.0.8f17
    com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter         1.8.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily  1.8.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter  1.2.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch     230.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver    5.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub     5.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite      5.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI  1.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily       2.0.3
    com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family     420.3
    com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily         2.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient   5.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily        2.0.8
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily          5.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime          1.6.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily          1.7.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily     1.1
    com.apple.security.sandbox           177.8
    com.apple.kext.AppleMatch            1.0.0d1
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages         331.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily    1.7.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore   28.18
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform       1.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily           2.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily         1.4
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    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, PCIe, 1024 MB
    Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Intel HD Graphics 4000, Built-In, 512 MB
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    Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54333531533642465238432D50422020
    AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xEF), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.198.19.22)
    Bluetooth: Version 4.0.8f17, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
    Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
    Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SM256E, 251 GB
    USB Device: hub_device, 0x8087  (Intel Corporation), 0x0024, 0x1a100000 / 2
    USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8510, 0x1a110000 / 3
    USB Device: hub_device, 0x8087  (Intel Corporation), 0x0024, 0x1d100000 / 2
    USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2512, 0x1d180000 / 3
    USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1d181000 / 5
    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8286, 0x1d181300 / 8

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    MacBook Pro
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro 
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
    http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
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    Isolating Issues in Mac OS
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1388
    https://www.apple.com/support/osx/
    https://www.apple.com/support/quickassist/
    http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/help/
    Recovery Mode
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
    General purpose Mac troubleshooting guide: Isolating issues in Mac OS X
    Creating a temporary user to isolate user-specific problems: Isolating an issue by using another user account
    Identifying resource hogs and other tips: Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
    Starting the computer in "safe mode": Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
    To identify potential hardware problems: Apple Hardware Test
    General Mac maintenance: Tips to keep your Mac in top form
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