Extended Desktop - no Arrangement option?

Hi there everybody!
I'm a new mac user - just got an iBook G4 w/OS X 10.4. I have an Apple Studio Display (an old one I was actually using with a PC) that I'd like to extend my desktop to. I checked out the Mac Help and it told me to "Go To System Preferences -> Display and click on Arrangement and follow the instructions there." So, I went to System Preferences -> Display, but there's no Arrangement option! I've looked everywhere on that screen
Apologies if I'm totally missing something obvious, but does anybody know how to get extended desktop working in this situation?
Thanks so much for any advice,
Sarah

As the specs say, iBooks are only capable of showing the same content on the internal and external monitor, so arrangement doesn't apply and the option isn't available. You'd need a PowerBook to do extended desktop.
(Actually, I think a hack exists to enable extended desktop on an iBook, but it's totally unsupported and I don't know where to get it. You might be able to find the hack by searching here or with Google over the Web in general.)

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