Problems with Appearance on snow leopard install

I just upgraded from tiger to snow leopard and i am trying to change my dock appearance to look like the newer systems with the space screen i am not able to remove this blue background screen. Any suggestions?

tb3525 wrote:
I just upgraded from tiger to snow leopard and i am trying to change my dock appearance to look like the newer systems with the space screen i am not able to remove this blue background screen. Any suggestions?
dock appearance or desktop background appearance? I think you mean the latter. when you say you can't change it, what exactly happens when you try? did you try changing in in system preferences->desktop&screensaver->desktop?

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