Boot Camp, XP, Macbook Pro and a Cinema Display

Add these things together and what do you get? Frustration enough to beat my head against the wall.
If I get my Cinema Display to work at all when connected to the MBP in XP, it's because I said a prayer to Bill Gates, or I looked away at just the right time, or some other arcane mystical crap because without changing Display parameters at any time, it's a completely random crap shoot on whether or not XP will send output to my Cinema Display. I can't get clamshell mode to work at all. So, I cripple my video capabilities when I actually manage to get output to the Cinema Display.
I loaded the Boot Camp XP drivers and CCC app from Ati's site. They don't help. They don't run. They want 2.0 .Net framework, and somehow, with all the patches and crap downloaded and installed from microsoft they still don't work. I get errors of missing implementation files. The whole thing is buggier than ****. Had to find and install 2.0 .Net framework, then patch it. Still nothing works right.
I am my wits end and frustrated beyond belief. Anyone at all have suggestions to help? I've tried three times to get help from Applecare, and I either get told they can't help me, or I get put on hold then hung up on.

Same problem with a brand new (today) 20" CInema Display. Annoying but not a big issue until now.
MacBookPro 2.16 2Go RAM 20" CInema Display   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

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