I've found that Windows does a pretty good job of stretching and compressing within reasonable boundaries -- have you given that a shot?
For some reason, my only options here are Tile or Center. Stretch seems to have been disabled. (No, I don't understand it either. I can install Firefox, but I can't stretch my wallpaper.)
My desktop is my nephew in a superman costume. i swear, it's the only thing keeping me from putting my fist through the computer most days.
I have a wallpaper from the badgerbadgerbadger site, da Vinci's famous drawing of a human figure with the arms and legs spread, but it's a badger.
I forgot to add that, due to Jessica's ridiculously cool link from a few weeks back, I am totally changing my wallpaper on the home computer to a picture of the wall behind the computer as soon as I get the latest roll of film developed.
I haven't bothered switching from a basic Mac wallpaper, but my screen saver is a bunch of Hubble telescope images.
My current wallpaper is a photo of Franny and her best friend holding hands and smiling. I lurve it.
but wait we didn't get a picture of me holding hands with Franny and we're bff.
I have rotating pictures of cute fellows as my desktop. Right now, it's a promo still from
Sin City
of Clive Owen leaning against a wall, gun in hand and fire in his eyes. I am known for my excellent taste in work-appropriate Cute Guy images, and several of the women who work here come by for regular updates on the newest picture.
Timelies.
I've learned something in my long absence. One, Festivals hurt my feet and Two, I need a laptop.