Setting Dotmac as the Screen Saver

I been trying to set my screen saver to use dotmac as the screen saver, but I cannot get it to work. I get the following message when I test the screen saver. “Your selected subscriptions have no pictures. You can change your subscriptions by clinking options... in the Desktop & Sceen Saver preference panel.” I tried doing just that several times but it will not work.
I use dotmac as my screen saver on my other mac’s with 10.4.11 installed and they work just fine with dotmac as the screen saver but, with Leopard 10.5.1 it does not work. With 10.4, I didn’t have to enter the name of the person that publishes public slide shows. Anyone else having this same problem or anyone know what the problem is.
Thanks in advance....

You must either have your own slideshow on your .mac account, or use someone else's account.
There is no default .mac slide show.
On your other computer that has a .mac slideshow, check the account name whose slideshow you are viewing and use that one.

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