10.5.6 won't remember display resolution...

My first mac.
I will set my screen resolution to 800x500 but when I shutdown and restart it gets set to 800x600.
Can anyone confirm this?
MacBook (Intel GMA X3100 chipset)
Thanks!

I called apple support to ask why my macbook won't remember certain display resolutions after rebooting. A tech advised modifying my "com.apple.Boot.plist" file with the following but it didn't work:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key> <--- I added this
<string>800×500×32</string> <--- I added this
</dict>
</plist>
Can somebody tell me what's wrong with the above? Or perhaps somebody can lead me to some other method for loading a specific resolution at startup rather than having to manually change it every time after booting.
Thanks!

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