The screensaver forgets photo source

I have recently updated my Macbook Air to Yosemite but it is so full of bugs that I will wait until they fix it all before upgrading my Mac Pro.
Other than the random hangs and safari crashes that litter what were perfectly normal activities in Mavericks one of the most annoying bugs is in the screensaver, which I would normally have setup as a slide show of one of my iPhoto events.
But no matter which event or album I choose to be the photo source in the screensaver control panel each time the screensaver starts it has defaulted back to National geographic.
How do I get it to work properly again?
Also, I have the desktop set to a random selection from an iPhoto album. Which is more stable than the screensaver, which doesn't work at all, but still seems to randomly forget my settings and return to the picture of some random American cliff.
The Macbook is generally well maintained and charged or powered so there shouldn't be an issue with the PRAM.
I hope they fix all these bugs soon.
They also seem to have greyed out the Mac OS and System Software Community to post this question to. What is going on.

I went into iphoto preferences and deleted any keywords that had numbers in them.
imovie now recognizes iphoto.

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