Widget is stuck on background!

Hello. I have a widget stuck on my desktop and can't get it to go away. It is fully active and I can even move it, but it won't go away.
I have tried restarting, using Activity monitor to quit it, and going onto my dashboard to close it, but it acts like a window in the background.
I was thinking of using a program like Amnesty (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17922) to try to move it back.
Oh, and it got there by alot of accidental clicks (My cat jumped on my laptop and there was alot of comotion, so I don't really know what happened)
-Me

It sounds like you at one time enabled the Dashboard "dev" mode which allows widgets to stay on the desktop - even between restarts. Otherwise, the widget would "pop back" when Dashboard was shown.
The solution is to pick up the widget and drag it, and while your mouse button is down and you're dragging the widget, press your F12 key to call up Dashboard. Once Dashboard is visible, let go of your mouse button and "drop" the widget back into Dashboard. This is probably similar to how you got the widget onto the desktop in the first place.
Oh, and Amnesty won't help you because it doesn't actually interact with Dashboard widgets (it's a completely separate and distinct widget environment), which explains why it can offer features (like widget rotation and scaling) that aren't available in Dashboard.

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