Wallpaper disappears when leaving sleep

I have a new MacBook Pro (late 2011) with Lion. It is closed and attached to an external monitor.
Whenever I wake the Mac from sleep, the wallpaper is replaced with a grey background.
Can anyone suggest a fix?

Interesting and where to begin? I do not see anything in the plist that looks like it would create this glitch however lets eliminate the possibility.
Move to the desktop the com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist and relaunch PhotoBooth.
Found in your user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist
If no change you can always return it.
If this is the case of no change, try opening new user account and see if thew problem persist. Report back.

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Best,
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Interesting and where to begin? I do not see anything in the plist that looks like it would create this glitch however lets eliminate the possibility.
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If no change you can always return it.
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I'm using FM 7.2p158 running on Windows XP on a Dell Optiplex GX520 with 1GB RAM. I've converted my legacy FM docs to structured FM, but my (CALS-formatted) table number xrefs disappear when I roundtrip the XML docs back to FM. How can I remedy this?
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I consulted our XSLT developer for proper browser display of the XML files, and he suggested that I should use the CALS table model. I studied the Struct Dev Gd, then I searched this forum for postings on CALS tables and related topics and used suggestions offered by many of you good folks to create an EDD, DTD, and R/W rules to that end.
I've run some tests using many iterations of my files (both CALS and non-CALS types) to roundtrip the FM files, but I cannot get the xrefs of the table number from the CALS-version table title element to display when I roundtrip the XML doc and open it in FM. I get this:
-- In the XML doc text opened in FM, instead of "Table 1-1" for the xref, it leaves a blank space (although the source numbered table title is there).
-- In the Structure View of the same XML doc, I see the following:
- The CROSSREF element text says WHITESPACE.
- Both the CROSSREF element and its source element continue to have the (matching) "Idref" and "Id" number displayed in this view.
- The Idref attribute is disconnected from the CROSSREF element.
- The "table" element is disconnected from its container element (TableAnchor).
Once I apply the File/Import/Element Definitions command in the XML doc in FM, the XML becomes valid and both the CROSSREF Idref attribute and the table element are reconnected, but my xref of the table number is still WHITESPACE.
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