[GeForce 6] McFly Method ! Two monitors AND TV out

Hi
I used my system for a lot of video editing - which means i need screen space AND TV out to a seperate TV monitor...
I was using a Matrox Parhelia which is triple head - this worked fine until I upgraded my system - and then my editing software (AVID XPress Pro) failed to work at all... so I needed to switch to an nVidia card.
I now have an MSI NX6600GT - which works fine - but being only "Dual Head" will ALWAYS play video out to one monitor and leave me with my Editing APP in the other window... Is there any way to turn of the FULL SCREEN video on my second monitor? I would rather have the option of playing out video full screen, than be forced to have it.
I am also considering the "McFly" method of using one AGP card - displaying on one MAIN monitor and TV out via S-Video permanantly on my AGP card, and installing a second PCI VGA card to handle the second monitor - so I can have Video overlay running out to a TV monitor and two VGA monitors running in "Dual View" or "mirrored" mode rather than "Clone" or "Stretch". Does anyone have any recommendations about the PCI card to use - it doen't have to be particualarly special - just able to run a second VGA monitor without any problems or conflicts...
Thanks in advance for any help
Tim

For the video being fullscreen on the second monitor,
Go into the GeForce6600Gt Properties page
click on 'full screen video'
in Full Screen device select 'disable'
(using the 71.89 Drivers, this options may not be in earlier versions)

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