Is it possible to completely disable Collage in screen saver.

Apple provides some beautiful shots for Screen Saver (SS) Nature Cosmos Forest ect. I also have some of my own shot also in there. When the SS starts and they are presented Square on to the Display I am a happy camper. I have gone through the settings for each one to make sure that they all will be presented that way. But every so often for what seems to be a random act they present themselves in the collage form of display. By the same token will go back to the square on display. Will someone who knows shed some light on this. I do not particularly like the collage format. I run an iMac 22 " 2.4 Ghz 2 gig Ram 10.6.2. I am ----Heiner Toelle
h.toelle (at) cogeco (dot) ca --
Thank you
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