Not all files showing up on desktop even tho they are really there..

hello everyone, i have an old silver powerbook G4 that is currently up to date in tiger 10.4.10
when i download something to the desktop, the file icons are not showing up. if i make a new finder window and view the desktop in a window, the files are there.
back in the day, i would have just rebuilt the desktop.. but not sure what to do with tiger...
i searched around and someone said to Move the
"Users/youraccount/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Finder.plist"
to the desktop then reboot and see if it clears things up...
does this make sense, or does someone else have a better idea?
thanks

Hello dri:
I would trash the preference file (what was apparently suggested) com.apple.finder.plist and then restart. No need to keep it, OS X rebuilds preference files as needed.
Barry

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