Screen flashes when going into screensaver/sleep

Hey Guys,
Every once in a while when my macbook is supposed to start the screen saver it will just start flashing a black screen. in order to make it stop i have to restart the computer. i was wondering if anyone else experienced this.
thanks!
Laura

Yup, this has just started happening on my Powerbook G4... it doesn't seem too damamging but I don't know why. I found your post while trying to discover a solution. I'm going to try reloading my Pixelbreaker Screen saver to see if that fixes it.

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