Font smoothing and connections

Hope this is the best place to post this. I have a new Dell s2209w monitor connected to my Macbook (which I run in clamshell to get the full resolution of 1920x1080.) I'd been using it with a mini-DVI to VGA connector and it looked good, but just changed tonight to a mini-Dvi to DVI. I'd understood there would be some advantage to doing so.
So I'm now DVI, running full-resolution, all calibrated... and my fonts are all blocky. Everywhere in snow leopard, regardless of program or font, they've all become blocky and not smooth, system fonts, custom fonts, etc. I've tried turning on and turning off font smoothing, and it doesn't seem to make any difference. I've sometimes seen Macs in the apple store look like this, with their fonts.
Suggestions?

I have the same issue on my HP monitor.
You may be able to try this:
http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leo pard/
It did not work for me though.

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