Display rotated in XP

I've helped friends set up Windows XP in Boot Camp on their new 20 inch iMac. After their toddler played some Windows game, the display was rotated in XP (not in Mac OS X). A reboot does not work. I've seen screens rotated in XP boxes before when users accidently hit a key sequence (ctrl-alt-uparrow fixed those) but I can't see any settings anywhere in the XP Displays control panel. I've done a search of these discussions and had no joy.
Any suggestions?

Tony:
The best way, in my opinion, to tackle this is to boot up in Safe Mode and then uninstall the video driver. Reinstall the video driver immediately after and that should take care of the issue.
Axel F.

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