Screen Saver Disappearance bug/glitch

This post is more of a reassurance that this bug didn't just happen to me and would like to see how many other people have encountered this "bug". (I am not sure if I should call this a bug or glitch.)
I have my screensaver set to the Word of the Day, and it usually works 95% of the time. The problem is sometimes it will start out as the word of the day screensaver but go black and have, in white letters, "Quartz Composer" (or something along those lines). I would go into system preferences, go under the screen savers, and find that these screen savers missing as options:
Word of the Day
Arabesque
iTunes Artwork
RSS Visualizer
Shell
Spectrum
Flurry and Computer Name were the only two options left. At first I was a little concerned that somehow the missing screen savers got deleted. Then I tried my luck by restarting my Mac. I go back to the screen saver tab and all of the missing ones reappear. As I stated earlier, I don't have a problem 95% of the time, but this weird glitch has appeared three times. I worry this will become a reoccurring problem.
Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes, this just happened to me this morning. I ran software update and also restarted my computer and they were all back. I was also wondering if this was just me and that's why I came here to look if it happened to anyone else.

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