Dell 1905FP external flatscreen. Weird scrolling problem!

I have a dell 1905fp 19in external monitor that I am using with my ibook g4. I have been using it for about 3 months now, but I consistently have the same problem with microsoft word. I open a word document and when I scroll up and down on my ibook monitor in the document, everything is fine.
When I move the document over to my external monitor to read through it, and I scroll down all the words jumble together, so they are unreadable, and it won't go back to normal unless I move the document back to the ibook screen. Any ideas, because this is really frustrating. It kind of sounds like a video card incompatability or something. Let me know. Thanks in advance.

It's as if the down key was stuck, but it's not. I've tried taking it off and putting it back on and it didn't work. I tried a USB keyboard and it didn't really work; it just reverts back to automatically scrolling down. If I press the down key on any given page, it will not move down, only if a press the delete key it will scroll to the bottom of the page.
It is near impossible to write anything in a word processor, because it is constantly scrolling to the bottom.

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