Apple Cinema Display and mini display port

I have purchased (for a ridiculous price) an adapter to allow me to use my cinema display with my new macbook pro retina system.  While it does work it doesn't seem to allow me to use anything but best for display which is only 1280x800 resolution which is far less than this monitor supports and looks terrible.  In fact for making me spend $30 for a stupid adapter is is very disppointing.
So first question is can anyone tell me if there is some way to get this to actually work?
Second question along the same line, is that I also purchased an adapter for mini display to VGA for using with projector systems that I sometimes need to hook up to when I go onsite to customer facitilites and within about an hour of being attached to an Acer monitor my entire system seg faulted and crashed with a hard reset.  Equivalent to the Windows blue screen of death.  I've never had this happen before and wondering if this is a known problem?
Thanks for any info you can provide.
Glenn

Do you have your MacBook Pro in mirror mode or extended desktop mode (System Preferences > Displays)?  If it's in mirror (the default) then the external display will be limited to the MBP's screen resolution.  I use my miniDisplayPort -> DVI adapter all the time with my Sony Bravia TV and have no issues displaying 1920x1080 on the extended desktop.
Officially, the Retina MBP supports:
- 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina mode)
- 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels (scaled mode)
In System Preferences > Displays make sure your display setting is Extended and then select the extended display panel and select 1680x1050.  See if that helps.  If that works, then try the 1920x1200 setting if your display supports it.  BTW, the extended display panel only appears if you actually have the external display connected. 
What make/model monitor are you using?
Never heard of a system crashing because it was connected to a projector.  I also use the miniDisplayPort -> VGA adapter to project and have never had a problem.
Is there anything else going on with your MBP?

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