diff --git a/capplets/background/ChangeLog b/capplets/background/ChangeLog
index ab5898630..402861b21 100644
--- a/capplets/background/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/background/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-01-12  Rodney Dawes  <dobey@ximian.com>
+
+	* gnome-wp-xml.c (gnome_wp_load_legacy): Fix previous change to
+	use gnome_wp_item_free () instead of g_free (), and fix tab width
+
 2004-01-12  Diego Gonzalez <diego@pemas.net>
 
 	* gnome-wp-xml.c (gnome_wp_load_legacy): don't crash if we could
diff --git a/capplets/background/gnome-wp-xml.c b/capplets/background/gnome-wp-xml.c
index 44b0fc5e1..17ac5d0c4 100644
--- a/capplets/background/gnome-wp-xml.c
+++ b/capplets/background/gnome-wp-xml.c
@@ -81,9 +81,10 @@ static void gnome_wp_load_legacy (GnomeWPCapplet * capplet) {
 	item->filename = g_strdup (foo);
 
 	item->fileinfo = gnome_wp_info_new (item->filename, capplet->thumbs);
+
 	if (item->fileinfo == NULL) {
-		g_free (item);
-		continue;
+	  gnome_wp_item_free (item);
+	  continue;
 	}
 
 	item->shade_type = gconf_client_get_string (capplet->client,