Wallpapers in Spaces suddenly changed in Mavericks

I thought I was seeing things. My wallpaper in each of my spaces changed suddenly. The strange thing was that one of the wallpapers was the Mavericks blue/green wave one and I don't even have it stored on my MacBook Pro. What's going on? This has never happened to me. Anyone have this happen? I've already ran Disk Utility and there was nothing wrong. What should I do?

You can try holding the OPTION key, and clicking the GO in Finder menu, select Library/Preferences, locate the file com.apple.desktop.plist and com.apple.desktop.plist.lockfile Then drag the first one to the to the desktop. Log out, restart, logback in and see if it behaves. Then try the second one and do the same logout/restart/login.
Check your system preferences and see if you have correct function, if not you can drag the files from the desk top back to where they where, (it may ask "this file already exists, do you want to replace?" click yes, as tis is not the issue.
I would stand by for some MAV software updates, as they are for sure coming.

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