Mac OS X 10.5 Spaces stops working after screen goes to sleep

When I boot up spaces and command-tab work fine until I walk away and allow my display (not computer) to sleep. Then when I come back, the screen comes back on but Spaces and command-tab will not work. I can use spaces by clicking on the icon in the toolbar but that defeats the purpose. Even if I turn spaces off after this happens, I still can not command-tab between programs and spaces will not work if I turn it back on.
Any help would be appreciated.

It turned out to be a screen saver that was running. Every time it ran I lost my spaces functionality. Now that I have turned it off, no problems.

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