OK the wallpaper part worked, thank you.
I've used some weird loader to get my box to boot from the usb, so I have no clue where to even begin on editing its files... Not that I could if I wanted to anyway, as the bootloader is on an ntfs partition and I can't mount one. Not that it matters because the box has slowed to a crawl, nautilus keeps raping the CPU for no reason at all, I just find it running 80%+ without even browsing any files...
And with that, I've had my fill of linux yet again, now back to windows where I can work, not work on it. This is the biggest shortfall of every linux distro I've ever seen, you spend hours and hours and hours working to get the most basic things set up, digging through man pages, googling, installing, configuring, editing, patching, etc... and by the time it's all set, the box has slowed to a pathetic crawl, the repository has died, a new version has been released, and the whole thing begins again....
Again, thank you for taking the time to post curaga, sorry I can't stick around, but I'm sitting here in silence since VLC wont play a shoutcast stream, and I cant load local files, as they're all on ntfs drives!