I haven't been able to find anything on google about this, and it just started happening spontaneously, so I'm worried that I may be seeing the first symptoms of a hard drive failure. I hope someone can tell me that I'm wrong, and I've just done something stupid.
Here's the situation:
When my screen saver starts, it makes the expose 'tink' noise and the screen comes back on repeatedly (so the effect is a repeating fade-to-black-Tink!-screen comes back on...very annoying).
When I start system preferences to turn off the screen saver (or change it to a different module), preferences opens normally, but when I click on 'Desktop&screen saver', I get the 'Tink!' and system preferences quits.
I have temporarily solved the problem by going into my ~/Library/Screen savers directory and removing the module I was using (Mac3DWatch.saver). Now I can get into the 'desktops&screen savers' pane of system preferences without it quitting, but there are no modules present (even though other .saver modules are present in my ~/Library/Screen savers directory).
What is most worrying about this is that it was working fine earlier today, and I haven't changed or downloaded anything...I've just been working in Word and running iTunes. I've tried rebooting to no avail, and I'm starting to get worried.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Cheers
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