Screen saver puts monitor to sleep after 5 minutes regardless of settings

Within System Preferences, I have set the Energy Saver to put my display to sleep after 15 minutes of disuse—yet it goes to sleep after 5. I have tried changing the display settings to 30 minutes, 1 hour, Never, etc., and nothing works; it always goes to sleep after 5, even when I have unchecked the selection for putting the hard disc(s) to sleep when possible. Does anyone know what would be causing this or another setting I am somehow overlooking?

try resetting PRAM
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
and SMC
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319

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