Boot Camp and QT updates messed up my monitor settings -- help!

The oddest thing happened after I allowed the updates of Boot Camp and Quicktime while running WinXP. My second monitor, which is an old 15" Apple Studio Display, went really dark, and I can't find a brightness control to fix it in WinXP. I now have to reset the brightness of the Apple monitor every time I boot natively in MacOSX as well.
Any ideas why this happened? Or how to fix it? The brightness control in WinXP is useless (it's an NVidia control panel) becase all it does is manage the relative brightness of the pixels; it does nothing to the actual brightness of the backlight. I read that there's supposed to be a brightness control tab in the Boot Camp control panel, but there isn't one.
This is a puzzling and frustrating dilemma. I hope someone out there can help. Aaaargh.
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I have the same problem with controling the brightness of my external monitor ( Apple Cinema display) while running Windows
XP on my MacBook Pro. Did you already find a solution?
Best regards. Robert

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