Presentation Director: Perpetual Error Message about Color + Resolution

Question

I got my Presentation Director installed but now everytime I try to switch to my Dell 2405FPW through DVI, Presentation Director gives me an error that says "unable to display current settings. check resolution and color depth."  However, it still displays the 1920x1200 resolution at 32 bit color - it just displays that error message when I try to use that profile - then Presentation Director just crashes completely ....
In addition, when I try to recreate my docked DVI profile, sometimes it allows me to output 1920, but sometimes it only allows me to select 1280x1024 from the drop down list... it's very buggy. 
How do I go about fixing this? 
Message Edited by singularity2006 on 12-28-2007 06:40 PM
Message Edited by singularity2006 on 12-28-2007 06:49 PM
T61_Wide | Model No. 7662 - CTO
Core 2 Duo T7250 | 2GB OCZ DDR2-800
82566MM Gigabit | 4965AGN Centrino Pro
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Okay, here's how it works.  I think this works ... please someone try to verify. 
To create the DVI output (docked) profile
1.  Plug the laptop into the dock
2.  Disable the nview plugin (right mouse click desktop > nview properties > disable all)
3.  Enable both the laptop LCD and external LCD
4.  Set the external LCD as secondary (extend desktop to this screen)
5.  set the laptop LCD as primary (extend desktop to this screen and set as primary monitor)
6.  Open presentation director and create a new profile
7.  Select DVI output only and select resolution (up to 1920x1200 should be available now)
8.  Test the setting
To update the profile for "my normal display settings"
9.  Disable the external LCD (uncheck "extend desktop onto this monitor")
10.  Set the appropriate resolution for the laptop LCD (sometimes after running Presentation director, it gets all weird)
11.  Select "my normal display settings"
12.  Click "capture" 
That should do it .... what a pain though. 
T61_Wide | Model No. 7662 - CTO
Core 2 Duo T7250 | 2GB OCZ DDR2-800
82566MM Gigabit | 4965AGN Centrino Pro