Album artwork screensaver screwed up my settings.

alright a while back i put my screensaver as itunes album artwork. this has caused me some problems. the first is that every time i open my screen saver settings it just closes so i get this error message and i click reopen and it reopens i click on screensaver and it closes again and another error message comes up. i click try again and the screensaver menu comes up the third time and it stays open so i can change the settings, the only thing is the setting never change when i try to change them. i try to change the screensaver and i test it and everything then i close the settings window and this message comes up asking me if i want to use the new settings or the old ones. i click the new settings button, but the setting don't change, so i can't get my screensaver off of itunes artwork. i don't know why this is happening or what i can do. i need help!
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