Controlling Brightness on Dual LED Cinema Displays

I got my mac pro and 2 x LED cinema display yesterday, very pleased with the whole setup (ordered a couple of extensions for the displayport cable after looking around in threads on here too). Something that bugs me a little though is that it seems only possible to control the brightness of the display connected to the graphics card in slot 1. using f1 and f2 adjusts this display's brightness but not the secondary monitor, likewise the system preferences display panel shows a brightness slider for each display, yet both sliders adjust the brightness of the same display.
I assume this is a software issue and will be fixed either in the next build of leopard or in snow leopard, but am just wondering if anyone has found a workaround / some kind of keyboard shortcut I'm missing or anything?

You are not alone:
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1988252&start=0&tstart=0>
There is one report (Filchescat) of it working correctly (apart from the Windows 7 user, whose brightness keys control three 24" displays).
I don't see how Apple can make independent brightness control of external displays work from the computer. The brightness is controlled via the USB cable. Unless each display sends a serial number through both its USB and display ports, how is the computer going to know which USB port corresponds with which display. System profiler doesn't seem to show serial numbers for displays or USB devices.

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