window backgrounds with os 3.1 A4K

[Will-i-am]

So the sister to the Beast is a desktop A4000 with a cyberstorm PPC/060 card in her. She has this funny problem: nothing in backgrounds. That means no matter what i do in Preferences I get nothing for a background in any window including workbench. The buttons depress and the menus drop down and I select a nice background and say 'test' or 'use' and it blinks and nothing happens. I tried going into MUI and getting somthing there to show up and nothing happens. I am looking at various image formats, maybe missing a datatype, maybe some switch somewhere is switched wrong... any ideas? This happened awhile back when all the pictures I selected came out in like greyscale only more mauve than grey and stretched out as well, but since then I fiddled with the cpu and added a Picasso, but the background problem happened before the Picasso came so it's something else, perhaps with MUI? It's registered and all but can't seem to save any settings. I installed it more than once, just in case... maybe screwed something up, but why blank window backgrounds?

[Dr_Righteous]

Are you using IFF/LBM images, or JPGs? Might be something wrong with the datatypes.

[Will-i-am]

I'm using every kind of image possible, starting with the ones that come with the OS. Even the patterns will not come up, not just pictures I scan. The windows all have the same pale color as workbench. This happened before I got the new PicassoII card, so it's something in the basic setup. I'd hate to think it was the Cyberstorm, that wouldn't make a lot of sense. I don't know enough about MUI, but although I have a registered copy none of the buttons, patterns or other changes to the system that I try to use through MUI come up either. I get the basic vanilla screens and windows. Peculiar.
I'm tempted to install OS 3.9 and see what happens. When I installed it into the Beast (A4KT '060) the change was so colorful I rather liked it, although most of my best progs broke. sigh.
I used to know an ultra-geek who would come and sit in front of the machine until it did what he told it, even long after I had given up and gone to bed. Now he's gone over to Winblows (can ya believe it?)The SOB even gave away his A3000.... not to me, though. I suppose he figured I should be happy with the five Amigas I have already.