White flash - desktop wallpaper reset

MacBook Pro 6,2 - i7 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM. I have recently noticed that when I open certain applications (esp After Effects), the screen flashes white then my desktop wallpaper is miraculously reset to a solid blue wallpaper. I then need to go into sys prefs and change the wallpaper. Sometimes even this doesn't work and I have to log off and logon to be able to change the wallpaper.

well, often times, any hint you can give as to what you're trying to do can help get your problem solved. Excuse me for ask for clarification about exactly what you were trying to do.
If you're not willing to give clarification for things like this, then you might as well not ask the questions. These sorts of questions waste your time and ours. I don't even know why I'm wasting my time telling you this, it's something that should be pretty obvious to you.
I believe Windows can display this screen saver because it can display web pages as backgrounds, but it doesn't appear that OS X is able to do this.

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I have had this same issue with OS X Lion and it continued on to OS X Mountain Lion as well. I have had the wallpaper switching on me to the default solid blue color whenever I restarted (every month or so) and when switching between users (every other day or so). So this issue was very frustrating having to go back in and reset the wallpaper to my preference whenever I switched to either user. I found a solution that has been working for me for several restarts and several switching of users now:
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