Screensaver random photo order is not random?

Hi - in addition to removing a lot of the screensaver options (eg in Classic Mode the "stretch to fill screen" and "keep photos centered" options) that I posted about yesterday, I have also noticed that since my upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion the "show photos in random order" does not work properly. What happens is that a group of photos keeps showing up over and over again in the screensaver. Every time I activate the screensaver this a different group, and it's mixed in with truly random pics, but a few keep showing up all the time - really annoying. Does anyone have a fix?
Cheers Klaus

Hi Klaus, did you ever find a solution to this? I have exactly the same issue. Each time you start the screen saver, there's a bunch of photos that keep coming up again and again. It seems to be different everytime, but the only way to get ride of the 'stuck' ones is to restart the saver.

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