screensaver problem

I noticed this late last night so didnt have much time to troubleshoot. but I can not get any of my screensavers to start. I set it to one min and does not come on. I've changed my power monitor to always on, monitor turns off in 45 mins and hard disk turns off in 1hr.
I can manually start the screensaver. I had emule, trillian, PG, probe in the taskbar and thats it.
I remember it worked a few weeks ago. I shut it off because I was encoding some video to cd and it kept hanging so I shut off the screensaver. Now I just updated my aquarium to ver2.0 so wanted to test it and it never came on unless I set it manually.

anyone ever had this issue?

Could be something running in the background that you are not aware? Have you tried shutting down EMule and seeing if your screensavers start?

wolfman youre exactly right thats what it was I just forgot to post my findings thanks for the 1 reply. ;)