How to turn off the Screen Saver in 10.4.8

I've been running tiger since 10.4.5 and do not want the OSX screen saver activated. Until now it has been sufficient to set screen saver to "never" in System preferences. After upgrading to 10.4.8, however, this does not prevent the screen saver from turning itself on.
I've done the usual magic, like repairing file permissions, without it helping much. Anybody have any suggestions?
best,
bob_tm

Hmmm... it did not work. I deleted the file and then the screen saver type and the time reverted to (I guess) default values. Then setting it to "never" did not fix the problem - the screen saver still came on within an hour (I would guess after default time - I was away for an hour).
Doing a "find" I saw that there was also such a file under "Safe Preferences" - should I delete that as well?
Any other pointers? Should I reboot as well?
best,
bob_tm

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