Dual Monitor Out of Frequency

I am reposting this from another area to see if get a response here.
I have a G5 Dual 1.8 machine with a GeForce FX 5200 DVI-VGA and ADC-VGA adapters. It drives to 17in Daewoo LCD monitors.
It all worked fine with dual monitors until I upgraded to 10.4.3. First alternatively one of my monitors went out of frequency after working through most of start up. Then the next causing the same work. Then after getting it to work by swapping around the monitors and reseting the frequency down to 75hz, both monitors went out of frequency.
I reinstalled tiger and upgraded all the way to 10.4.2 and am able to use both monitors. I did this in both archive and full mode. I also upgraded in steps several times so I am confident it is a problem that ocurs with 10.4.3 upgrade.
So it looks like their is a bug in 10.4.3 that does periodically puts the frequency out of range for the monitor.
I am posting this to be helpful to others who might experience this problem and to request any suggestions that I might have missed.

Now I just tried 10.4.5. Still the same problem. So again I went back to 10.4.2 and the problem goes away.
Given the lack of responses to my posting, I am puzzled - there must be someone else out there with a fx 5200 nvidia and vga monitors - why am I the only one with this challenge?

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