Display Turns Off Even When Set to Stay on

I'm running Lion on my Macbook. I've set the energy settings to never turn off in power adapter mode, but it still turns off after approx. 5 minutes. Is there another place where this setting needs to be configured? This is causing me problems when leaving the computer to do a lengthy process such as compiling a slide show movie. Thanks in advance.

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