How is Screen Saver Supposed to Work?

Every time I bring Leopard out of screen saver my browser has closed and has to be restarted. Is this normal for MAC's or is there something I can do to stop this? I verified the display & HD are both set to never shut down. I also looked in power options and still nothing there.
It really looks like it is restarting more than just going to screen saver. In fact now that I think about it the screen saver is gone and it just displays all the users on the machine.
TIA,
Brian

Do you have the Screen Saver Hot Corners enabled? If not, go to System Preferences/ Expose' & Spaces...in the *Active Screen Corners* section, with the lower left drop-down button, choose "Start Screen Saver", and with the lower right drop-down button choose "Disable Screen Saver". This way you can start and disable it whenever you wish.
Now with your browser open, manually start the Screen Saver for a few seconds, (move the mouse pointer to the far left lowest corner), now stop the Screen Saver w/mouse or keyboard.
Did the Screen Saver activate or did the users list appear? Is you browser still open?
Does the same problem exist for the other users or from a "Guest" account?
Post back results.
pw

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After upgrading to Leopard (from 10.4.11), the screen saver wouldn't work. When I go into System Preferences and select a screen saver, I get an alert that says:
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There's another two files that we can try. I only gave you the simple top level plist file. There's two more if you were willing to give that a shot and see what happens.
Lets do this: go under your main hard drive name/library/prefereneces/systemconfiguration
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2. preferences.plist.......Please delete this if the top file did not work
Next, setup your machine preferences including your screen savers. Check to make sure the files have been regen'd.
Test the setup. I just re read your initial post and noted there was an error message with the bundle. I will bet that even after deleting those two files you will still have the same issue as it's not the plist files that are damaged but that the OS can't load the bundle for those screensavers due to file corruption. In that case, the only thing that will remedy that issue is reloading the bundle off the new Lep install disk.
I also note that you have been having other issues as well. Leopard over Tiger is a nightmare Shelly. It really is. I could not boot and it took me two days of trouble shooting it down to driver level to find the issue and resolve it. I fixed it though and now I can boot up all the time without a kernel panic but, it does take way too much time away from just using the machine. That's the real issue-time. Good luck.

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