10.6.1 Screen Sharing still coming in black

Again, one mouse click to whatever quality choice is not currently selected brings the picture right in.

I checked it myself. When I went into System Preferences +Desktop & Screen Saver+ pane +Screen Saver+ tab, and selected +iTunes Artwork+ as the screen saver, there was a message (in the preview area) that said the iTunes library did not contain any artwork.
I had just updated to to 10.6.1, and did the iTunes 9 update at the same time. I had not run iTunes since the 10.6.1 update. When I ran it to check that my album artwork was still there, iTunes 9 went through a process of updating its library file (took several minutes). After checking that the artwork was all there in iTunes, I ran System Preferences again. This time, the screen saver showed the artwork properly. I can only concluded that the screen saver, because I had iTunes 9 installed, was looking for the iTunes library file to be as updated for iTunes 9. Before I ran iTunes 9 for the first time, it was the earlier format, so the screen saver did not recognize the format.

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