My screen won't turn off fully - it just dims after the timeout specified in display settings has elapsed. It does turn off (but not lock) after a few minutes, so I have to manually lock it all the time now. Anyone have any idea what I did to cause this? I tried changing all the TKLOCK related stuff back to the defaults in mce.ini but that hasn't fixed it yet. What's the default for blankImmediately and DimImmediately?

well, i restored a default mce.ini and uninstalled a bunch of apps and it's still not working. pretty annoying.

using the backup tool to restore settings and apps to june 1st fixed it, i guess i should take more frequent backups
anyways i'll post here again if i ever figure out what caused this.

it happened again tonight, about all i can figure out is restoring the settings to a previous backup fixes it.
I think it's this setting in particular:
display_blank_timeout
something is setting it to "300" - working backups are missing this setting completely.
I'm doing another backup and going to adjust that right after to see if that is the culprit for sure.

-edit-

nope, it does actually lock after the 5 minutes. i have no idea what software is changing the default of "3" to "300" however.
most likely my original problem is that it messed with the setting "inhibit_blank_mode" as well, setting it to "4"

simple brightness applet doesn't seem to be messing with this, which is somewhat surprising.