Is there a problem with Speakable Items in Lion?

I have long enjoyed talking to my Mac.  When I upgraded to Snow Leopard I encountered a conflict between Speakable Items and the Screen Saver and Energy Saver Preferences.  What happens is that immediately following a first spoken command to Speakable Items, my system would no longer obey the System Preferences I had set for the Screen Saver and Energy Saver.  I spent many hours discussing with Apple Support, assuming the the problem lay within my own system, all to no avail.  After my own experiments and the technician's experiments at Apple Support, we found that the problem seems to occur on any Mac running Snow Leopard, that it is a bug in the OS.  I have had to work without using Speakable Items since then, very annoying.
I anticipated that this bug would get cleared with Lion, but I have just upgraded to Lion and one of the first things I tried is to resume using Speakable Items.  Before my first spoken command, Sceen Saver and Energy Saver correctly obeyed the preferences I had set.  After my first spoken command, Sceen Saver and Energy Saver failed to activate just as with Snow Leopard.  Is this a persisting bug carried over from Snow Leopard into Lion or a problem within my own system?

Ted, I've tried multiple things from multiple forums, none of them worked. I did find a solution though. I knew using a Time Machine backup could modify some important files in the new OS. I made sure Speaking was switched off.  Then I opened my library directory and opened my preferences folder. When I had it open I entered time machine. I chose the most past backup and scrolled through till I found the speech preferences. (com.apple.speach..... Etc) There should be about 6 files. Select only those 6 files and restore them. When finder asked it it should delete the old files or keep both, delete the old files, they are your current preferences. Then I did this to the speakable items folder just in case. When I turn Speach Recognition back on it was right as rain.
Hope that helps, not everyone uses Time Machine.

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