I think the registry is messed up. desk.cpl isnt writing the wallpaper style values, SystemParametersInfoW isnt wrtiting the path, and IntSystemParametersInfo isnt able to read the wallpaper settings from it. Also, my livecd wont boot with an error about not finding the codepage. This all leads me to believe that something is up with the registery. The last update i have is w3seek's where he reverted filip's registry changes. I dont know when this started happening, last day or so. It all worked fine when i commited 19476.
Royce: The reason you werent getting the bugcheck with my stretch patch was because desk.cpl wasnt writing the wallpaper style values to the registry and tat is why the wallpaper didnt stick.
I'm kinda busy right now. But hopfully within an hour I will be free and be able to do some more debuging.
Brandon