Dreamcolor with Quadro 4000 on Mac

Hi there,
I'm trying to run my Dreamcolor off display port coming from my Mac's (10.7.4) Quadro 4000, and I'm getting an ugly image - looks like the antialiasing is all screwed up or something.
Does anyone have experience with this connection? I'm trying to get rid of the need for my AJA system, as that is notoriously difficult with drivers and such.
Thanks so much for your consideration
RN

Hey Run & Gunner! We have a stable system at present, no issues since installing the 4000. Here's the specs below. I've seen a few posts here where people are not using CUDA on MacPro and seem to have managed a quite speedy system. I'm not that brilliant, so CUDA was an easy fix.
Our MacPro 5,1, 12 gig memory, 10.6.8 our Quadro 4000 gpu driver is 1.6.37.0 and our CUDA driver is 4.1.25, not the latest, but the whole system is very stable.
Also we have a Kona LHe that I'm only currently using for audio (see last note below). Our RAID is software and via a FirmTek eSATA card. We also have an ATTO SCSI card for backups with our budget Quantum DLT drive.
I did some research before installing the 4000 as Todd mentioned above. Made sure I installed the correct card and CUDA drivers first (not necessary on Lion as also mentioned) before installing the 4000.
The big thing I gleaned from probably all the posts you read too was wise words not to update the CUDA and card drivers immediately when they came out if my system was already stable. Then I'd do some research to make sure there weren't any issues before updating between projects. I've generally applied this for other updates too for years, but sometimes I"ve gotten lazy and that's when I've been stung.
Ironically enough, we had issues with crashing in FCP7 (stock ATI then) and eventually discovered it was the Kona not playing well with the native HDV footage we were editing with. All that when all my editor MacPro friends had zero issues editing with many other codecs in FCP7 and AJA (but different Kona cards).

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