Password No Longer Required To Wake?

I have my computer (Powerbook G4, bought last June) set to not go to sleep, but to have the display go to sleep after an hour. I also have my laptop set to require password to wake it from sleep (or, in this case, display sleep/screensaver). This has worked flawlesly up until the past few days. Now, it no longer prompts for the password to wake it from screen saver, it just awakens. Even when I actually put my laptop to sleep it no longer asks for the password to wake it. I've repaired the disk permissions & restarted the computer but it hasn't helped.
How can this be fixed?

Hi!
There seem to be a lot of people that have had this problem lately. What seems to be the root cause is one of the user preference files gets saved incorrectly. It's not clear to me if it's an apple issue or the result of some third party software changing things and an update causing that change to be worse than it used to be...
The first step is to see if your system has a problem or your user account has a problem.
Create a new account and test the screen saver with that account. 90% of the time that one works which means that 90% of the time - the system is fine.
Please post which category you fall into:
* all users (including a newly created one from today) have a problem with screensaver settings
* some users have problems screensaver settings
We can help with some more ideas to try to see if you can isolate which file is corrupt or which setting needs to be changed to re-write the settings so you get the security you expect for your existing user accounts.

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