The Menu bar is screwed up.

Howdy, i am running OS X 10.5.4
When i go to change my desktop, there is a little button that says 'Translucent Menu Bar" and i normally have it unchecked, that way my menu bar is solid. But, now when i want it to go translucent, it goes to a solid white.
here are some pictures:
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOLID:
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5836/picture1oz8.png
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE TRANSLUCENT:
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6176/picture2mh9.png
What can i do to fix this?
Message was edited by: Casey was here

Yes, I should have read more carefully. Try going to Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and delete that file the log out and back in or restart.
-mj

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