T61 and Presentation director 4.03

Hi, I have a T61 notebook, upgraded ThinkVantage software and now I am facing serious problem with Presentation director. When I open the presentation chooser with Fn+F7, I can see all old profiles to be imported from previous version. The problem is when I go to the schemes manager. In the manager's screen I only see a blank window with title "Fn+F7 menu" and "Display Scheme Name". No schemes are listed below :-( So I guess I can not add, remove, change schemes...
I tried to uninstall the manager and install it again, the old schemes disapeared but the problem persists...
Do you have any idea or help?... Thanks, B.

I've had problems with 4.03 version also. One T61 had profiles just messed up, Presentation profile was disappearing from the menu and was working only occasionally.
Also, on T60 all profiles were missing, if you tried to create a new one it would not recognize the monitor! I already did a reinstall but it didn't help at all.
New 4.0x version has been problematic from the beginning, I have faced numerous problems with it. Even the user interface is "messed up". I have taught people to use Presentation Director, but if this is the quality they will soon start experimenting with Windows and/or nvidia settings...

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T61 and the Intel Graphics Card error - external monitor not detected

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