Daisy chain monitor from cinema display MacBook Air 5,2

I know the Mid-2012 MacBook Air is capable of 2 external displays as described here.
The monitor works when plugged directly into the MBA, but not when daisy chained from the back of the cinema display.
It's a dell monitor, and I'm using an Apple Thunderbolt-VGA adaptor.
Is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

As far as my question itself -- why does this happen? Has anybody had this issue on Lion and had it resolved on Mountain Lion?

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Mac OSX 10.8.2
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro10,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:          2.6 GHz
Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          4
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          8 GB
Boot ROM Version:          MBP101.00EE.B02
SMC Version (system):          2.3f32
Intel HD Graphics 4000:
Chipset Model:          Intel HD Graphics 4000
Type:          GPU
Bus:          Built-In
VRAM (Total):          512 MB
Vendor:          Intel (0x8086)
Device ID:          0x0166
Revision ID:          0x0009
gMux Version:          3.2.19 [3.2.8]
MacBook Pro:
Vendor Name:          Apple, Inc.
Device Name:          Macintosh
UID:          0x0001000D11C0EF80
Firmware Version:          11.1
Port:
Status:          Connected
Link Status:          2
Link Controller Firmware Version:          0.11.4
Port:
Status:          No devices connected
Link Status:          7
Link Controller Firmware Version:          0.11.4

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