Urgent, system preference got frozen and not not working.

I was trying to change the desktop picture and after I chagned, I did not like the picture and wanted to choose another one, I went back to system reference and open the desktop and screen saver, It started to show a circle with rainbow color and cannot close or do anything, I forced to quick and send the report to Mac, and re start again. but I still cannot do anything with system preference, they go back to desktop screen saver screen and cannot do anything, please let me know what I did wrong and what I need to fix this!
thank you very much.

ShugNight wrote:
Hi tjk,
thank you for your suggestion but do you know how to fix it?
I'm sorry, I do not. In an earlier OS, I'd go looking for the appropriate pref file/s and trash it/them, but I don't have a clue where things are in Lion. Also, this could be a known issue in Lion, in which case you might get a very quick solution in the Lion forum. Good luck to you.

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