Locking Your Screen Without Putting Machine To Sleep?

Hi, I was wondering, is it possible to lock your screen in Mac OS X 10.4 without putting your machine to sleep? I would like to have running processes continue to run and securing machine at the same time. If this feature doesn't exist, is there an alternative way to accomplish this under Mac OS X 10.4? Well, I must go and thanks in advance.
Happy New Year,
-Conrad

Yes, you can set the Screen Saver to have a password which will let things run in the background, and turn off the Energy Saver.
Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Security. Turn on the checkbox "Require password to wake this machine from Sleep or Screen Saver"
Choose the Screen Saver via Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Desktop and Screen Saver and change its times there.
Choose Energy Saver (Sleep) via Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Energy Saver to change its times.

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