2009 iMac 3.06 (w/Nvidia 130GT) not supporting 1920x1080p on a HP w2338h

I just purchased a new 2009 3.06 iMac (stock) and upon hooking up the Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to a DVI to HDMI cable and plugging it into the HP w2338h it comes up at the proper 1920x1080 resolution but the iMac will only drive it Interlaced and there is no option for Progressive. Plugging this same monitor into a much older Macbook Pro via just the DVI-HDMI cable brings the display up at the proper 1920x1080 progressive.
Edit: All other resolutions below the monitor's native (1920x1080) come up in progressive mode.
Message was edited by: The Doctre

I found a cheaper solution than buying a Dvi kvm. Like you I also only got the interlaced option in system preferenceS; lets just say that it looked really bad. The solution is to go into the display settings and change to a resolution like 1600 x 900 that has progressive support. Now choose "Show displays in menu bar" option. Once that is done go the menu bar and choose the display icon (it looks like a monochrome fullscreen display) click on it. and choose 1920x1080 60Hz. Whoa-la, it is now in progessive.
I think this is a bug from OSX's DVI recognition software, since it clearly can output 1920x1080 in progressive if you do those steps.
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