I'm running windows xp - Inkscape .48. See the screen shot attached. Looks like the right side is white and the left side of the background is transparent. Any ideas on how to get both transparent?

I must not be going about this the right way...I'm trying to export an object shown in the attachment, 1 is a circle and the other is a rounded rectangle. When I go to export the objects I select the "selection" tab. Also, I turned off / unchecked the border properties in the the page sele...