2 Boot Camp Issues: Time clock and Display resolution

I have windows vista ultimate installed on a separate partition from OSX on my primary internal HDD. I have the newest release of bootcamp (1.4). I have two really weird issues. The first issue is when I restart after using windows and boot up into OSX, the time clock is always different (usually about 7 hours behind) and I have to go in and reset it each time. This normally wouldn't bug me except that I find myself using Windows (unfortunately) a lot for certain programs.
Another issue is that when I am in windows my primary display goes to 1900x1200 (the native resolution), but my other display that I have plugged in, a Samsung SyncMaster 245BW, only goes to 1024x768 (the highest setting i can choose), when the native resolution should also be 1900x1200, like it is in OSX. I've tried finding drivers and the samsung website says that the windows generic plug and play drivers should work fine. Is this a bootcamp/hardware issue or a samsung/driver issue?
Message was edited by: bgarson

There is nothing that you can do about the clock issue other than what you are already doing. OS X stores the time in the hardware as UTC (GMT) time. Windows stores the time in the hardware as your local time. 7 hours slow at this time (daylight saving time) indicates that you are in the Pacific time zone.

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