Dual Mointor Questions with Vista in Boot Camp

Hello,
Right now I am testing the MacBook Pro's ability to support the need of our business. As of now, we are distributing PC's and Mac's to marketing and web design folks. For a chance to save money, we are going to see if boot camp will work to our advantage. Everything is a thumbs up so far! The last thing we need to figure out, is how to run dual external monitors in Vista. We are using a DVI splitter that splits to a DVI and VGA. When I hook everthing up, I can get the video to run extended desktop to one of the monitors when I am still using the laptop screen. I know some people have been able to update the video drivers, but I have not been able to find any. Any advice?

I used a driver and inf file from this site:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
worked great

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