Screensaver preferences crashing after uninstalling screensaver

Question

I had the Electric Sheep screensaver installed but didn't like it so I removed it in the screensaver preference pane, and now when I try to select some screensavers the preferences crash. The ones in particular that I'm having trouble with are Arabesque, RSS Visualiser, and Shell. The rest work fine.
Any idea how to fix this? When it crashes it gives me the option to reset it but that didn't fix the problem.

Answer 1

when I try to select some screensavers the preferences crash.
The .plist files? Never heard of those crashing? Or do you mean Arabesque, RSS Visualiser, and Shell are crashing?
It's possible Electric Sheep messed up your directory. Check Home/Library/Preerences to see if the Electric Sheep screensaver left any preferences behind. If so, then trash them.
If you have Diskwarrior, I would run it directly from the disc. If not, boot up from your install disc to run the repair disk setting. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart when done.
Message was edited by: CMCSK