Screen saver GPO in AD 2008 R2

What's the GPresult or RSOP on one of your machines?
Lets try and track down why it's not working

I want to apply the same screen saver through on my network, but the personalisation option is not active on any desktop PC. I've created a GPO (User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Personalization) and even created timeout of 60 seconds through GPO.Till now I can't get them to work on user pcs. What could I be missing out? Seems my GPOs don't work.
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