I went back and took a closer look. Indeed my wife had set a custom background. I set it to use the theme default and the blur/gradient problem went away. However, a new problem showed. When I made the change, I got a rectangle that was not painted in the panel - see new screen-shot - of lower left hand corner of my screen. Their is an unpainted area just to the right of the Close All Windows applet.
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