DVI to HDMI adapter causes Kernel Panic

I am trying to connect my Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa chipset) to my 1080p HDTV. Whenever I connect my DVI to HDMI adapter, I get a kernel panic. The same setup works fine on the Bootcamp side of my mac. Any ideas?
*My HDTV:*
http://www.oncorpus.com/Product/LCDTV/40LC45S.htm
*My Mac:*
Macbook Pro (Mid 2007)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
*My Adapter:*
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?cid=104&cp_id=10419&cs_id=1041902&pid=2029&seq=1&format=2

i have the exact same problem. same TV. my macbook pro is the early 2008 model, which has the same graphics chip. I have a feeling it is just the graphics chip is faulty in some way. I have an appointment tuesday and ill see what they say, i'm going to try and get a new gpu.
the exact same set up we're trying works with different tvs, and setups with different computers works with this TV we are dealing with (40" proscan)
i'm going to try this on my brothers new macbook pro 2009 model and see if it works, if it does then its got to be the graphics chip.

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The best option is an appointment at an Apple store genius bar. The evaluation will be for FREE!
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I've been studying for a while the best solution for connecting my early 2009 Mac Mini to my LCD TV and Blu-Ray 5.1 System. I didn't took long to figure out the "Mini-DVI->HDMI Adaptor for video" and "Mini-TOS->TOSlink for audio" scenario. The problem is that I'm short on optical inputs. After thinking it through for a while, it dawned upon me that a "DVI+TOSlink->HDMI" adapter would crack this one. This adapter would take the DVI video and the TOSlink audio signals from the Mac Mini and composite them into one single HDMI stream. It seemed far fetched that such an adapter would even exist, but I decided to give it a go.
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