Settings for desktop pictures will not save

The setting "fill screen" will not hold for the desktop pictures. It keeps reverting to "Stretch to fill screen"
This was happening on my old Mac (G4 DP 1.42 GHz Mirrored Drive Doors). I used the Target Disk mode to transfer everything over to this Mac Pro, and the same thing is happening. I'm guessing I have a corrupted prefs file somewhere.
I tried deleting com.apple.systempreferences.plist but the problem did not go away...
Anyone have any ideas?

Do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears, ignore the Slide to Power Off that appears)
Note: You will not lose any data.

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