Screen saver broken

I set the screen saver to the iTunes artwork one, set it to change a picture every .5 seconds, and set it to 2 rows. It immediately crashed and since then, I cannot access the screen saver settings in System Preferences and whenever it goes to screen saver, the screen just blinks rapidly. What can I do to resolve this?
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I'm not sure if it would do anything but try Repairing Permissions and Repair the Disk via Disk Utility. Otherwise, you will probably have to reinstall your OS.
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