Why won't my screen saver come on?

I recently had the hard drive on my MBNP re-formatted and now the screen saver does not come on.  I have made several different adjustments to the Desktop/Screen saver preferences and to the Energy Saving preference and nothing seems to work.  I have set the computer and display to NEVER turn off, I have set the computer to NEVER turn off and the display to turn off in X minutes.  Neither choice sems to work.  Withy both set to NEVER the computer and desktop display justb stays on all of the time.  With the computer set5 to NEVER the display goes black after the set number of m inutes but the screen saver doesn't begin.  I have tried to set it for different possibilities but always get the same result, nothing. HELP please.
Stu

MrRules,
If in fact you are running 10.7.2, you should run software update to bring it up to 10.7.5.
You can also try a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Follow directions for a battery you should not remove yourself/or which applies to your computer
Also try a NVRAM/PRAM reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Also check your system preferences, energy saver, screen saver, and also check that wake for network is not checked, as well as blue tooth...

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