My screen saver won't start on a schedule.

Hello. On my MacBook Pro running 10.9.2, I recently noticed that the screen saver does not start at the time I've told it to. My hot corner works and it starts if I set it to start after just one minute, but if I set it to anything longer than a minute, the screen saver just never starts. I've seen lots of other threads about this. One user fixed it by clearing his system cache. I did that with OnyX and I'm still not seeing my screen saver start. Any cool ideas?
Jeremy

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch by logging out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

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