Screen Saver will not always turn on

The screen saver doesn't always activate. If I go into system preferences and 'test' the screen saver, it will later turn on after the selected time (15 minutes). But I often come back to my IMac after several hours, and find that the screen saver has not turned on. I have clicked 'use random screen saver' and that is often unselected when I check it again.
I am the only on who uses this machine, and I have only the default screen savers, no add ins.
I have burned the itunes image in the screen after only 8 months of use. Very frustrating.
Any ideas?

Try locating and deleting these two preference/plist files:
~(yourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
~(yourUserName)/Library/Preferencescom.apple.preference.desktopscreeneffect.plis t

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