30" Cinema Display paralyses my 17" 3.06 GHz MBP - why?

Real issue here, I have a Macbook Pro 17" 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo with 8GB of ram and a 7200 speed 500gb Hard Drive
My 30" Cinema Displays make my 17" MBP crash, flicker, mouse go crazy etc at least once a day and kernel panic occasionally.
When its not connected to the screen, its fine, never crashes.
Had thought it was the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter as I had read they cause interference, so I replace it but still it crashes the machine.
I have hooked up an old 23" clear plastic cinema display of my friend's with the same adapter above and so far, 5 days on and no crash!
I dropped it off at my local certified mac reseller and they have been running it off their MBP and so far it hasn't done it with them.
I am completely lost.
I have reset the SMC and the PRAM and neither of these do much good at all.
pleeeeeeeease help as I'm seriously peeved with this situation.
Thanks in advance to anyone who might have a solution?

just crashed again on start up, whilst a few apps were starting up, just after he desktop loaded at 8.00 and I have copied this from the log:
Jan 15 07:59:19 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: * launchd[1] has started up. *
Jan 15 07:59:24 localhost configd[15]: com.unsanity.apeconfig load failed
Jan 15 07:59:24 localhost configd[15]: The bundle “ApplicationEnhancer” couldn’t be loaded because it doesn’t contain a version for the current architecture.
Jan 15 07:59:25 localhost mDNSResponder[16]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-214 (Oct 16 2009 06:09:30) starting
Jan 15 07:59:25 localhost com.apple.kextd[10]: Can't load /System/Library/Extensions/TetherBerry64.kext - no code for running kernel's architecture.
Jan 15 07:59:25 localhost com.apple.kextd[10]: Failed to load /System/Library/Extensions/TetherBerry64.kext - (libkern/kext) requested architecture/executable not found.
Jan 15 07:59:26 localhost com.apple.kextd[10]: Load com.quark.driver.TetherBerry64 failed; removing personalities.
Jan 15 07:59:26 localhost com.apple.kextd[10]: Can't load /System/Library/Extensions/TetherBerry64.kext - no code for running kernel's architecture.
Jan 15 07:59:26 localhost com.apple.kextd[10]: Failed to load /System/Library/Extensions/TetherBerry64.kext - (libkern/kext) requested architecture/executable not found.
Jan 15 07:59:26 localhost com.apple.kextd[10]: Load com.quark.driver.TetherBerry64 failed; removing personalities.
Jan 15 07:59:28 localhost configd[15]: bootpsessiontransmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
Jan 15 07:59:28 localhost configd[15]: DHCP en1: INIT transmit failed
Jan 15 07:59:28 localhost configd[15]: network configuration changed.
Jan 15 07:59:28 localhost mDNSResponder[16]: Adding registration domain antonioconte.members.mac.com.
Jan 15 07:59:28 MacBook-Pro-NEW configd[15]: setting hostname to "MacBook-Pro-NEW.local"
Jan 15 07:59:28 MacBook-Pro-NEW configd[15]: bootpsessiontransmit: bpf_write(en2) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
Jan 15 07:59:28 MacBook-Pro-NEW configd[15]: DHCP en2: INIT transmit failed
Jan 15 07:59:29 MacBook-Pro-NEW configd[15]: network configuration changed.
Jan 15 07:59:45: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jan 15 07:59:45 MacBook-Pro-NEW com.apple.usbmuxd[37]: usbmuxd-176 built for iTunesNineDot on Sep 24 2009 at 16:11:05, running 32 bit
Jan 15 07:59:46 MacBook-Pro-NEW /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[44]: Login Window Application Started
Jan 15 07:59:48 MacBook-Pro-NEW bootlog[54]: BOOT_TIME: 1263542359 0
Jan 15 07:59:48 MacBook-Pro-NEW mDNSResponder[16]: SIGHUP: Purge cache
Jan 15 07:59:48 MacBook-Pro-NEW blued[55]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started

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