Cannot specify which is my "Secondary" monitor.

I have 3 monitors attached to a Mac Pro running Lightroom 2.7.
When I enable the Secondary Monitor view feature of Lightroom, it uses the monitor far to my left when I want it to use my calibrated monitor to my right. Any idea how to tell Lightroom to use the other monitor as the Secondary Monitor?
Thanks,
-Ryan.

+1 for the same issue on Win7.
Workaround 1: Uncheck "Full Screen" mode (Shift F11,) drag the "secondary" panel to whatever screen you want it on, and size it to take up the entire screen. Not ideal, but for me as long as I never go to full screen mode it will stay put and remember the location and size.
Workaround 2: On my setup, LR always wants to make the secondary screen the one to the immediate left of the current main window. My layout is three screens, L M R. If I put the main window on M, secondary goes to L. If I put the main window on L, secondary goes to R (it wraps like PacMan.) If I put the main window on R, secondary goes to M.
For full details on my adventures with ennumeration and port-swaps, read on...
From left to right, Windows thinks my display order is 2, 1, 3. I want LR on displays M & R (currently 1 & 3) but the secondary goes to display L (currently 2.) I used the catalyst software to "swap" desktops such that the numbering changed to 3, 1, 2, but LR still puts the secondary in the same physical location (display L, now #3.)
Undeterred I uninstalled and disconnected the little display that I don't want involved in the LR game at all. I restarted the machine just on displays M & R. With some dismay, I notice that Windows has reset the numbering that I had previously changed, and now displays M & R are back to showing 1 & 3, even though there is no display 2.
OK so perhaps the numbering assignment is happening at some lower level regardless of tweaks made in the driver, and I need to mess with the ports? (Years ago this was a real thing.)
I start rearranging cables. Display 1 is M just as I want it. I move the cable for display 3 to the port that 2 was on previously. Now display R is #2 just as I want it. I reconnect the final monitor to my last remaining DVI port, and hurray it comes up as display 3!
Now the order is a natural (not driver-tweaked) 3, 1, 2. I launch LR, hit F11, and to my horror guess where the secondary window goes? You guessed it. #3 in the L position. I'm thinking, "damn, LR sure has a crush on little screen!"
At this point it must be something else. I start toying with the position of the secondary screen relative to the main screen, and that's when I come up with the info in my "Workaround 2" shown above.
Hope this is helpful for someone.
Adobe, please let us assign screens within LR!

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