Screensaver inoperative after update to 10.8.2

My screen saver will not startup. I updated to Mountain Lion 10.8.2. There was an error that occured when I tried to update, saying the update did not happen, yet it did. After that, about two hours later, I walked away from the computer, had to do something. Whan I restarted the monitor, there was no screensaver active. I checked and the setting had not changed from the last time it was active. I tried changing the settings, even setting it to one minute to start, nothing. Some help please? Oh, btw, in the update info from Apple it mentioned several screensaver options, the only one I don't see is shatter, I see classic instead. Any clue?

Believe it or not, I tried to let the computer sleep and shut down the display, I changed their setting is what I did. The screensaver still would not come on. Finally I decided, just now, to reinstall the update. I proceeded to set the Filevault off, it's decrypting the computer now. I turned off the Firewall......Lo and behold, the screensaver came on.
Now here is the question. Is having the drive encrypted what caused the concern, or the firewall. Again, I had received an error message when the update installed, it said it did not install. When in fact it did. Though, this seems to have corrected the issue, I prefer the files encrypted and the Firewall up.
When it finishes decrypting the volume, I will attempt the update again and see if an error message comes up again. If this works, then I know any and all future updates need to be performed this way and will. Time consuming though it may be.
Hmm, maybe it will fix the external speaker issue I have also, that occured after the update. That is another issue for another topic.
ps, Thank You for trying to help!

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