Where's Translucent Menu Bar Option?

Hey guys,
I have Leopard 10.5.4, and I have been told that, to turn off translucent menus (including the menu bar) you must go into Desktop and Screensaver in System Prefs to turn it on or off. Problem is, the option isn't even there! These transparent menus are bothersome, and I can't install certain haxies on my machine while the transparent menus are running.
Any help would be much appreciated.
ben

Hi(Bonjour)!
I do not have transparent option in pref panel, but when I use this command in terminal, log-out and log in, I get the opaque menu bar. To revert to a transparent one, type 1 .
defaults write -g AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency 0
There is a thread about this problem related to multiple video cards:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389603&start=15&tstart=-1
Michel Boissonneault

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