Display shift with ATi X1900XT

OK… it's my turn to ask a question and have a problem. In actual fact is less a problem than a big annoyance.
What is happening is that when I either boot, reboot or come out of sleep, the entire displayed image/desktop is shifted 1 pixel both up and to the left. The simplest way to tell is that the top left corner isn't rounded like the top right corner because it's chopped off by 1 pixel each way.
I can however rectify it by turning my display off then back on again else resetting the display to default via the OSD. This can get hugely annoying as one could imagine.
Anyone else get this problem with or without an ATi X1900XT?
By the way, I'm using a Dell 2405FPW 24" display although I doubt it's the display as it's be working fine with both a Mac mini and a PowerBook.

Ned you have a tough one here
LOL!! Why is it always my problems that are the tough ones. I would have thought it would be fairer if we shared them.
As for your suggestions, I didn't think of trying a lower, yet "incorrect", resolution though I'll give it a shot after I finish installing Windows… for the 100th time . Hmmm… I'll see if it does it in Windows too.
Like you, I think the issue is either with the card or the driver although right now I'm leaning towards the driver. I've still got to install Mac OS X on another driver so I'll see if it happens there as well.
To anyone else, if you wouldn't mind taking 2 seconds to have a look at the top left of your display the next time you reboot to see if I'm the only one with this. Thank you!

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Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386
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Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B04
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PCIe Lane Width: x16
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Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x7249
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-A52027-140
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.140
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Rotation: Supported
Television: Yes
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Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
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also forget to say : did all the full apple hardware test + tech tool pro test (app that come with apple care) and nothing was wrong, all ok.
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