Bizarre startup behavior

At the outset, I need to tell you...what you're about to read is really strange, but my hope is someone has experienced the same condition and can offer a solution.
There were times early on when I was convinced that I needed a new monitor, but I felt it was first important to try and isolate the problem. Going through the steps has permitted me to find a work-around which, if followed, gives me reliable use of my display...but the problem still persists. Here's the deal.
I have an acrylic 23-inch Cinema Display. My computer is a dial 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5. The lighted power button quit working on the face of the Display's frame, and at every startup, the monitor would fail to come on. I took the Display to an Apple Service Center and they said it performed perfectly. I bought a new DVI-AVI Adapter, but the problem persisted. I thought it might be the graphics card, but I was able to plug-in another monitor which fired up every time.
What I've learned is that if I un-plug the Display after the CPU powers down, that I can plug it back in when I'm ready to use it again and it works perfectly every time. If I leave the Display plugged in after the CPU powers down, it will not boot the next time I power up the CPU...even if I unplug it from the wall for a while. In the case of the latter, it requires me to unplug the CPU, both cables into the DVI-AVI Adapter, and the wall plug, and wait for about 30 minutes. Then, if I plug everything back in, bingo the Display starts up at CPU startup...I can even power everything when pressing the lighted button on the face of the Display's frame.
What does this tell me? I'm not sure, but it seems as though something has to discharge from the power cables before everything starts normally. It is as if there is some sort of static power in the lines which haults the startup process if it is not given a time to flugh out of the line.
OK...there you have it. If anyone has experienced this problem and can offer a solution, I would be really happy to hear about it. Thanks!

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