Difficult to change default logon screensaver

I created a custom for Windows Vista Business SP2 screen saver.  I want to put my screensaver to default logon to be my new custom screensaver.  So I did some research and discovered that by changing the registry key hkeyuser\.default\control panel\desktop\SCREENSAVE. EXE to the path of my screensaver folder Vista uses instead of the Windows Vista logon.scr.  for some reason when vista goes to screen saver the screen goes black.  I checked that the custom screensaver works for any user who is logged.  However, it goes to black when nobody connects.

to do a little more troubleshooting I changed the screen saver to the windows Vista default (Ribbons.scr).  and I get this message:

Direct3D 9.0 is required to run this screen saver, but cannot be found.  Please install the latest version of DirectX and re-run the screen saver.

DirectX is installed.  What I'm missing here?

Thank you

Hi d_gordon30

Thanks for posting on Microsoft Answers.

You have saved in the c:\windows\system32 folder screen saver?
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