GNOME - Screensaver settings don't obey, CPUFREQ wont work

Hello I installed Arch w/gnome on my laptop the other day and i'm having a few issues.  Firstly, the screensaver activates when the computer is idle for about 10 minutes.  I have changed every setting in gnome and i've even disabled the screensaver and it's still happening and i have to enter my password.  I've also disabled all of the "dim brightness" settings and my screen goes dim after about 5 minutes and slows things down.
Secondly, I've setup CPU scaling according to the wiki and i have the monitor applets working in the top panel.  I modified my rc.conf so that the default setup is "on demand".  I can select from ondemand or performance for each of my 2 processors.  The problem with that is that the applets do not "spike up" to green as they did on Ubuntu.  I can clearly see Compiz effects going very slow while this ondemand setting is used.  In ubuntu the monitors would spike up all the time whenever i did anything, but on arch i rarely see them go up at all no matter what i'm doing.  I tested Compiz animations with both processors on performance and everything is smooth.
My guess is that i need to configure a file for the ondemand setting.  Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

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