Where is my Aperture Screen Saver gone?

Hi there!
I am facing the following bizarre problem:
I had configured the screen saver on my MacBook Pro 15" to use pics from my aperture library.
Now this function has somhow disapeared! Suddenly I can only choose iPhoto not Aperture anymore
What happened and how can I bring Aperture back to my screen saver choices?
Thanks in advance
Thorge

There is a setting in Aperture Preferences/Previews called 'Share previews with iLife and iWork' if this is not checked then you won't see them in the screen saver either.

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