Did you post the name or brand of your Video Card and do you have the most recent video driver?
Hi, thanks so much for your help with this. I have a Sapphire (ati) PCI-E X1650 pro. The driver did indeed need to be updated which I did just now to the the March/2009 driver. Rebooted but did not cause any change.
I did check the "start in windowed" mode button, per one of the prior suggestions and that seems to have stopped the long re-draw process coming out of the screen saver