After upgrade to xorg screen/serverlayout / cannot force resolution

I finally got around to doing an update on my living room server/TV box after about six months of no updates. After the upgrade, Xorg is now ignoring my monitor/screen settings and coming up at 1920x1080 instead of my preferred resolution of 1360x768.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intelmonitor.conf:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI3"
Option "PreferredMode" "1360x768"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "bigscreen"
Monitor "HDMI3"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1360 768
EndSubSection
Device "Intel Graphics"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "biglayout"
Screen "bigscreen"
EndSection
xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI3 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
1360x768 60.0 +
1920x1080 60.0*+ 30.0 24.0
1920x1080i 60.1
1600x1200 60.0
1680x1050 59.9
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 75.0 59.9
1280x960 60.0
1280x800 59.9
1152x864 75.0
1280x720 60.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
720x480 59.9
640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Before the updating this was producing a nice 1360x768 resolution for me. I use fluxbox so no other desktop WM interactions taking place.
Here's my current Xorg log (no old ones saved, rolled over before I thought to save one):
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output VGA1 using monitor section HDMI3
[ 2993.973] (**) intel(0): Option "PreferredMode" "1360x768"
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output HDMI1 has no monitor section
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output DP1 has no monitor section
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output HDMI2 has no monitor section
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output HDMI3 using monitor section HDMI3
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output DP2 has no monitor section
[ 2993.973] (II) intel(0): Output DP3 has no monitor section
[ 2993.973] (--) intel(0): Output HDMI3 using initial mode 1920x1080 on pipe 0
Full log file here
I can see that the HDMI3 output is grabbing the monitor definition, but it goes to 1920x1080 anyways.
I've been trying a lot of different approaches but I get the impression that I'm missing something completely. Also, I know that you can force a resolution change with xrandr but when I do that it doesn't scale the screen correctly, moves my conker way off and generally doesn't look right.

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