Front Row Appears & Disappears...

When I press cmd+esc or use the apple remote to start front row, the screen briefly fades into the black screen that normally happens when front row begins but it then that instantly fades back onto my normal screen, it seems that front row begins but then aborts.
Has anyone had this problem or know how to solve it?
Im using latest version of leopard and have reinstalled front row latest software update to no effect.
Cheers,
Steve

my apologies, found out the answer, read an answer to a previous discussion and found out that i was running a custom screen saver that front row didnt like so had to take it off. hope that sorted it out if anyone else had a similar problem

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antrozous wrote:
Front Row got taken off Lion.
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I have Leopard running on a MacBook with bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
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Again, I would recommend you post in the iTunes forum. My iTunes does NOT display differently. You may be right, it may be a G5 thing, but you should find out for sure.
My solution is simple - I will not be renting any more movies from the iTunes Store.
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