Brightness slider in display system preferences?

I am wondering if there is any way of bringing up the brightness slider in the displays panel of system prefereces. I use 10.3.9 on a G4 Digital Audio, 466MHz upgraded to 1.2GHz and the original GeForce2 graphics card upgraded to ATI Radeon 9000. As I have no brightness slider and the range of brightness adjustment on the Dell LCD monitor is very limited on both VGA and DVI the only serious way I currently have of controlling brightness is to set down the RGB sliders on the monitor according to the levels recommended by my Spyder2Pro profiling tool.
I am also going to check with Dell technical support to see if that is something that needs to be fixed.
Question -- would either of the following get my brightness slider in the displays panel?
1. Putting back the GeForce2 card
2. Upgrading to Tiger
3. Upgrading the graphics driver (note, I am fully up to date with Apple's panther updates)

My Cinema Display 27" is too dark. I'm running it in Bootcamp WINDOWS 7. Adjusting "brightness" only provides a "white-wash" look. It has no effect on the actual amount of light coming from the monitor---especially, when I've got it runnning side by side with non-cinema displays attached to the same Mac Pro. It's like there is dark-filter on it. Totally dim by comparison.
I've got a MAC PRO 12 core running bootcamp WIN 7 Pro. Any help please?

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