Mac running two screensavers at once?

No matter which screensaver I select, after several minutes, the "Computer Name" screensaver starts running and flashing the screens back and forth between the two screen savers.
It's quite annoying, and I can't find anything that should be starting the screen saver on it's own.
Running System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app /Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine
starts only the properly selected screen saver. The Computer Name screen saver starts itself later, after some delay.
If I select the Computer Name screensaver, the mac seems to run a second instance of it after a while and again the screen flashes violently between them.
The computer has actually done this since 10.4 but the upgrade to 10.5 didn't seem to affect it.
Does anyone have any idea how I can stop this evil rogue screensaver from taking over my mac??
Thanks in advance for any pointers you can offer.

Check your preferences on the off chance you selected "Use random screensaver".
Can't think of anything else right now.

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