Thanks for the informative replies. My problem appeared to stem from an improper setting of "picture_options" to "tiled" instead of "wallpaper"....or not shutting down gconfd-2...or screwing up the syntax to gconftool-2 --direct --config-source.
Anyway, can't reproduce original "...read-only source at front of configuration path" type of error when picture_option "wallpaper" is used. I should have looked at the last thing I touched....rather than the last thing I read! This message posted from opensolaris.org
