No, it will not change anything. It should use the gnome-screensave backend but doesn't. We have to find why.
I open a upstream bug about that. Could you continue the discussion there and help us to find the problem? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354306 -- Causes repetitive dropouts in playing music https://launchpad.net/bugs/57703 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs