Blurry External Monitor

I have a Gateway FPD2485W external widescreen monitor connected DVI. In the past week or so I've noticed that even at its native resolution 1920x1200 the screen and text look blurry (in fact, red text looks downright bleeding). I've tried different resolutions, tweaking the monitors own settings and nothing seems to work. In addition, I can no longer get the external monitor to work with the MBP lid closed. Can this be related to 10.5.2 and/or the graphics update? If so, how do I downgrade either?
A $600 monitor on a $2000 laptop should not look like this!

Hey,
I am pretty sure it is. A lot of people seem to havign problems after installign teh 10.5.2 graphics update.
Follow this link:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6717591#6717591

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