Rick Simon:
am a triple monitor guy. can kindly verify if the fish appears normally on the monitors. the smearing you described earlier is gone. but the fish on my third monitor appears translucent and you can see see the background through them.

All of the fish look just fine here, on all of my monitors.
Jim Sachs:
im bummed by a nasty 'unhandled win32 exception occurred in MA3Beta.scr' whenever i select the screensaver from the display properties>>> screensaver menu in windows.

I wonder if these problems might be caused by a registry entry problem between the versions. By any chance, did you run the Registry cleaner script to clear out everything from v7m before running v7n? This link refers to the script if you don't already have it:
https://www.feldoncentral.com/Sachs/registry_scripts/ma3_remove.reg