Screensaver crashing system preferences!

I recently (and yes, somewhat belatedly) discovered the amazing 'mosaic' option in the built-in iPhoto screensaver. However, after initially working, it has now stopped working (after I switched the screensaver off altogether for a couple of days) and is crashing System Preferences whenever selected. I have to force quit the System Preferences app and select another screensaver. Does anyone have any ideas? Perhaps its photo cache file has become corrupted??

The following files are all modified when I selected the screensaver pane, and then set it to use the mosaic effect on a folder of images:
/Users/francine/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/francine/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preference.desktopscreeneffect.pli st
/Users/francine/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphotomosaic.plist
/Users/francine/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.slideshow.0017f 20dca84.plist
/Users/francine/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
/Users/francine/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
There is a Cache.db in
/Users/francine/Library/Caches/com.apple.systempreferences
But I believe that only caches Desktop images, not stuff in the screensaver.
Francine
Francine
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