techie question re ibook

You can see that I will now bore you with techie ibook questions for the next 24 months or so. I am evidently more exercised than is sane about this new gadget as I woke up in the night thinking about it and then had a troubled dream about how we sold our house to move next door and next door was really crappy, small and dingy, and I burst into tears and said, "We've made a real mistake!" Then I woke up and felt so relieved to see we were still in our old house with my nice loft study!

Which is where I am, again at the old imac. I have as yet no idea how to transport all my favourites and my documents and my bookmarks over to the ibook.

And I've lost Brad!!! I have Brad on my desktop:



He is exactly this size and sits in the middle of my desktop. My old version of OS8.6 allowed me to do this in the menu 'Appearance'; I clicked on 'Place picture', and then I could blow up the pic to screen size or place it in the middle.

But the ibook OSX won't let me do that! I can only make the picture be the desktop! But I don't want to do that. My desktop is a very busy area, full of icons and aliases and folders and stickies. I need Brad to be in the centre of it all not looming in pixellated glory as a backdrop wallpaper.

Oh, knowledgeable Friends: What is the trick to get around this (incredibly important and ideologically pressing) dilemma?