Desktop Cinema Preview Resizing Problem

When I preview on my second monitor (using CMD-F12) in "Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Raw", as soon as I hit play the image jumps up to full screen, reverting to the source pixel aspect when I hit stop. It seems to do this no matter which of the 4 desktop preview modes I'm in. I thought it might be a setting on the monitor (Samsung 245BW) that auto-adjusts, but there's nothing in the setup menu that relates to this. I need to preview at actual resolution.
Has anybody else run into this issue?

Sounds to me like your install could be edgy... might perform a totally clean one... i.e., erase and install OS X, etc... You are running FCP 5.1.4, right?
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