ATI HD 2600 2 monitors freeze/unfreeze

Interesting behavior on my new 8 core MacPro.
I have the ATI Radeon HD2600 XT. 1 23" Cinema Display
and another 20" VGA cheap display.
When I boot up, the machine will wedge if I have the 20" display
plugged in. If I unplug it, the machine will boot just fine and then
I could plug the 2nd monitor in and it would display just fine in
non-mirrored mode.
After upgrading to 6GB RAM from 2GB RAM, now when I plug the
2nd VGA display in after a boot up, it locks up the computer ALWAYS.
If I unplug it the computer comes back from it's suspended state.
Definately something wonky with this display card? Should I take it
in to a Genius Bar to have the graphics card replaced? It seems there
are graphics problems with both the ATI and nVidia drivers on this
new machine?? Is there no ideal graphics card solution?
--Wayne

Strangely enough, my VGA display had gotten into some weird state.
"Rebooting" the VGA monitor causes 10.5.2 on my MacPro to reaquire it
(and reset the resolution to 800x600 from 1280x1024). After that all
seems fine.
Wonky drivers... ugh.
--Wayne

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tClark,
I use two LCD screens PLUS a CRT TV, connected by firewire to a Panasonic DV deck, which is connencted through SCART to the TV.
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NOTE & DISCLAIMER: This is the first time I have done something like this, so I don't claim to fully understand every step that is going on here, nor if every step is needed. I based this on the procedure referenced in link immediately above and it seems to be working for me (that is, my graphics card driver was ultimately updated for Win7, 64-bit just like had been previously under WinXP) - YMMV.
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"ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO" = ati2mtag_M76, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9583&SUBSYS_0083106B&REV_00
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