Extended desktop video troubles

I have a 20" imac with a 24" extended desktop and I am loving it. There's just one thing that is very annoying. I got the second monitor because I like to watch videos while I write and search the web. but most of the video sites I go to won't stay in full screen when I click the mouse. So I'm forced to watch videos that take up only 1/4 of the screen. On many sites I can zoom into the website, but this often creates a jittery, blockiness that isn't there when the video is set to full screen.
So my question is, how can I get my browser to not jump out of fullscreen when I use the other monitor? Is there a certain browser that has that kind of option? Is there an app for my computer that will let me do that? Do I not understand something fundamental about changing video settings? Or am I completely out of luck?
I'm having this problem on sites like youtube, all the network sites, megavideo wisevid,dailymotion, zshare,ninjavideo, etc etc. Pretty much the only site that I don't have the problem with is Hulu, of which I can either use Hulu Desktop or I can pop the video out and then expand it to the size of my screen.
So I guess another question is, if I can't do something that would uniformly fix the problem for all the sites, are there any more programs like Hulu Desktop (besides netflix) that are ideal for watching on an extended desktop?

And there's one more question I was hoping to get answered that I forgot to mention.
Is there a way to dim one screen to black while the other continues to play a video? I know that frontrow does it automatically, and quicktime and vlc both do it, but I would like to be able to do it easily on my own command--maybe with quicksilver (i'm not using the program yet but plan to get used to it).

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http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
If you'd like to read a little about it, Mac World did a little Tinkering:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2004/10/imacscreenspanning/index.php
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