Comment 8 for bug 1019701

I'm getting the same issue:
   Welcome Screen openes by default at boot up
   It will close if I just click on Close
   It will not close if I click on any of the options offered in the Welcome Screen
   It just hangs there obscuring everything else I open (luckily I have two monitors)
   Eventaully what was the Welcome Screen graphics are overwritten and it turns to a grey box

I tried F5 to refresh the background to no avail.

I can open a new instance of the Welcome Screen and it operates perfectly i.e. use the links and then I can close it but the original Welcome Screen instance (now a grey box) remains.

My system summary:
-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Memory : 2065MB (603MB used)
Operating System : Linux Mint 14 Nadia
User Name : mark (Mark Finch)
Date/Time : Sat 27 Apr 2013 11:44:20 BST
-Display-
Resolution : 2560x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV42
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : Audigy2 - SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]
Audio Adapter : MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
Audio Adapter : USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d
-Input Devices-
 Power Button
 Power Button
 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
 Logitech Logitech USB Optical Mouse
 gspca_zc3xx
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A
ATA SAMSUNG HD502HI
ATA Maxtor 6L300S0