Screensaver background frozen onscreen when awaking monitor

Hi, I have noticed this issue recently and it has occurred a couple of times. Basically I have the monitor set to turn off after 15 minutes. This issue is occurring on my Mac Pro.
My Mac is always on, just the monitor turns off. I have also set one of Snow Leopard screensaver to start after 5 minutes of no use. Recently I noticed that when my monitor is off and I move the mouse to turn it on, a static background from the screensaver appears on screen, no desktop, no dock or anything.
After about 20 seconds, the screen disappears and my desktop is back in view and I can use my Mac. This doesn't occur all the time. I have repaired permissions and also verified the disk which appeared to be ok.
I have recently updated to Safari 5 but that's the only change that I've made to the computer. I was getting low on free space on my 650GB Drive (30GB) so I deleted stuff and now it's at 80 gbs. Anyone else have this issue? what could be causing this?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

I've been having the same problem on my iMac for a while, including far before Safari 5. The screen saver will "freeze" leaving a static image on the screen. I have the time displayed, so I can tell when it happens because the time doesn't update. For example it just happened that the time said 5:23 and it's 5:30. Moving the mouse and pressing a key on the keyboard doesn't work. However I have found that if I connect with screen sharing from another Mac it wakes it up immediately.

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You can also refer to guide in this blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/win7/archive/2011/08/24/is-it-possible-to-display-the-screensavers-on-both-monitors-when-dual-monitor-is-configured.aspx
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<blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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