Fuzzy 20" apple cinema display

Hi All,
got two major issues with my home studio set up, bought two 20" apple cinema displays only to find out that my crappy G5 only has one port. Has anyone had any problems with the DVI to ADC adaptor?. As this seems to be my only option.
I also connected both displays to the one DVI port i do have, only to notice that both displays are showing a fuzzy image. I've checked all connections and also rest the PRAM, but yet the displays are both showing a fuzzy image.
The graphics card i have is
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB of DDR SDRAM
can anyone shed some light on this
Many thanks in advance

Maybe the screen is slightly zoomed. Try Command-Option-8 once or twice.

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