Using a whole iPhoto Album as screensaver

Until last evening, besides all the built-in screensavers supplied by Apple, all my iPhoto albums were available as screensavers by going to the Apple icon, choosing System Preferences and selecting the "Desktop & Screensaver" icon. Last night I added a few new photos from the web and went to change the screen saver selection, and all the albums were gone. Still in iPhoto - nothing wrong there - but none available to be set as screensavers. Selecting iPhoto Library in Preferences/Desktop & Screensaver doesn't produce the albums for selection. I've looked till I'm too fed up to look anymore. I'm stumped. Can anyone tell me what happened - and how I can go back to my happy carefree days of yore? As it is now, I'm just running some of Apples built-in screensavers. Very nice, but I miss having friends, family and travel scenes. Thank you - anyone!

Sorry about the wrong Forum - I find navigating this site difficult, especially as I don't use it very often [and patience not being always one of my virtues]. Thought "post a new topic" would get me out of the present topic. Nope. Anyway, I'll move this to the proper area and maybe someone will come up with an answer. Your answer was helpful, but I'd tried that. No luck. I've found a way around the problem by re-creating the albums on the desktop, but I still don't know why they disappeared from the Preferences for screensaver without my having changed any settings. Perhaps my computer was having its own form of PMT. Who knows? I don't! Thanks.

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