Strange desktop image behavior

Hello,
I have 2 admin accounts on my mac right now, each with it's own desktop image. Everything works fine except during the user-switching animation. From one account to the other, everything is smooth: both desktop images rotate with the cube.
But from the other way around it's different: during rotation, the desktop image from the account I'm switching into is the basic Apple Blue image. But as soon as the rotation is complete, the desktop image I chose suddenly appears.
So from account 1 to account 2 it's always ok, but from 2 to 1 I always get a temporary apple blue image.
Any idea why?
Thanks,
Loa

Well thanks for the suggestion, but that's not actually the
problem I'm having.
The newsletter link along with all that other stuff on the
left hand side is just stuff I havn't gotten to yet.
The problem I'm having is with the navigation tabs at the TOP
of the page(policies, forms, info and M.R.)! I know the links for
those tabs are correct, because I can see from hovering over the
tabs that they're pointing in the right direction, and if it's the
policies page(leftmost tab at the top) I'm on, all the tabs to the
right work perfectly. The problem is that when I'm on any other
page (such as the M.R. page which is the rightmost tab), all the
tabs to the left of it mysteriously stop working!
As I said, just quickly click back and forth through the four
tabs at the top of the page and you'll see what the problem is. In
fact, completely ignore everything that isn't those four tabs at
the top of the page, because everything else is unfinished.
Please help! Thanks!

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