Can't select photos for Screen Saver in Preferences?

I have this problem on two Mac's running OS 10.4.11. I can't change/select the screen saver from the Preferences window. When I select Choose Folder and navigate to my iPhoto '08 Libraries, they are all grayed out. The screen saver that runs is the last Side Show I run in iPhoto. So I can only change the Screen saver from iPhoto by selecting a different iPhoto Library and running a slide show with those pictures. Then the newly selected library (albums, etc.) shows up in the Screen Saver selection window below the gray line. Am I doing something wrong? Is there perhaps some preference file that needs to be deleted to reset things?
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Hello,
It might just be a corrupted preference file, try this: Locate this file: com.apple.iphoto.plist
It's here: /Home/Library/Preferences. Open the Preferences folder, locate that file, drag it to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot. It's ok to trash a pref file, your Macs will create new ones for you.
Also, if that doesn't do the trick, try moving the photos you'd like to use into your Pictures folder, not using your iPhoto libraries. That way when you "Choose Folder" .. select your Pictures folder in the Sidebar in your Finder window and see if those photos are available.
Carolyn

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