G5 Monitors Prefs

Hi, I am running a 2.5 GHZ G5, with one older Apple Monitor and one LG 'Studioworks 995E' monitor. I know I did something wrong, but can't figure out to fix it! I have all of the adapters needed, and I know this configuration physically works because it does when booted from another drive.
Here's the issue...
One monitor will not display a screen - it doesn't seem to matter which way I plug them in - one monitor displays about half a desktop and the other stays blank.
I have already reset the PRAM and the SMU to no avail.
I feel this is a preference problem, but don't know which prefs to dump.
Help!
P
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Perhaps try running Preferential Treatment to see if it will find the corrupt .plist file.
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