Help!! Macbook (2009) to HDTV!!

Okay, so I bought my Macbook in back in August (2009) and I've recently tried to hook it up to my Samsung HDTV. The sound works fine and I get a picture (which used to be my background but even when I changed that it still stayed the same) but that's it! I have a mini-DVI to HDMI adaptor and then just a regular HDMI cable. It's hooked up to my HDMI in port 1 because if I hook it up to port 2 the sound doesn't work.
So with it hooked up to port 1 and the sound working how do I get it to let me use my TV kind of like a second monitor. Even when I pull up Front Row it doesn't work, I just get sound. Everyone keeps saying that you just hook it up and it works... well... obviously not. Is there something else I need to do to get it so that I can see whatever I'm doing on my Macbook to show up on the TV?
Please help!! Thanks!!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions
You're getting audio through to the HDTV with just an HDMI cable ?
(In theory that won't happen as Apple have not enabled audio by HDMI) : puzzled:
Anyway, when they are connected run System Preferences/Displays and see if it's set to Extended Desktop or Mirroring (i.e. a copy of what's on the other screen) If you want the Dock to be on the external monitor drag that across.

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