Screen savers fail on launch

My screen savers fail when they try to launch. I only have the standard screen savers installed. They try to launch when they are supposed to (on hot corners, Test button, etc.), but then fail. The way it fails is that the screen goes black and then whichever screen saver I've selected is displayed for less than one second. Then the initial screen then displays.

From avalokita: I found my problem. My rf mouse is evidently damaged (yep, I musta dropped it one time too many), and it was apparently sending spontaneous messages to the macbook and keeping it awake. When I unplugged the rf transceiver from the usb port, the problem went away. Gotta geta new mouse.

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