Where do the screen shots go?

I have been using capture of selections of my screen (cmd-shift-4) for years, with thecreated image file showing up on my Desktop, but suddenly there was a corruption in the Finder and now when I try to capture a selection I get the message that the directory is not writable. I have been trying to find where this destination directory is set and have not succeeded. I don't even know which application handles this (it is not "grab").
Can anyone shed any light on this subject?
thanks,
Micheal

I found that the Desktop folder had mysteriously migrated deep inside my Pictures folder. I copied the entire Desktop tree to my home directory and deleted the tree inside my Pictures folder. The Apple screencapture utility still wants to send its output to the Desktop folder where it had migrated. I can make the error message disappear by creating another Desktop folder in the same location inside the Pictures folder, but that is not the point. I want the screencapture to put things in my real Desktop folder.
I have examined the preferences with prefsetter and find that for com.apple.screencapture there is but one preference to set, and that is the type of graphics file to create....

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