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I opened iPhoto for the first time after finding out I could change the desktop that way ... Each time I try to open the thing it just sits there and says "Loading Photos" for a while ... I just created a new library and it shouldn't take that long. This is a work computer so I am on a shared access but it just churns away. After a few starts of trying to laod the stuff the program just quits on startup until I delete the library and create a new one. I just want to pick one photo and make it into a desktop instead of the nasty one they have ... Help!! Thanks ...

Glen,
Thanks for your response. There is nothing wrong with your approach, but your mention of a "tech guy" makes me suspect that a permissions issue is behind the failure of iPhoto to launch successfully. Can you, as user, run Disk Utility and fix permissions on your hard drive, or does this fall under the tech guy's purview? There may be more to it (your account may have some user restrictions), but this is the place to start.
But, even should iPhoto become accessible, I'm pretty sure that the desktop picture needs to be set from the Desktop control panel. If iPhoto were able to change your desktop picture, then any other arbitrary application could, too. But I could be mistaken.

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