Hot Swapping Monitor Crashes OSXvnc and light blue screen on reconnect

I was having trouble with using my mini's monitor as a second monitor for my Mac Book Pro. Each time I'd disconnect it from the mini and then plug it into the MBP, I could not longer access the mini from VNC (using chicken of the VNC). I tried running a different VNC server on the mini (Vine), but this didn't work. After connecting and reconnecting the monitor cable on the mini a few times, the screen came back up and I was able to see that the OSXvnc-server process running under root was not responding. Force quitting the process go everything working again. I thought it was a pain to have to reconnect the monitor again to do this since I could still ping the mini from the MBP after disconnecting the display, so I looked around and came up with the following instructions for doing this remotely via the terminal and ssh (make sure you have ssh access enabled on the mini System Preference->Sharing->Remote Login
I couldn't find a solution in one place anywhere on the interweb, so I'm either the only one whose had this problem or the only one who has bothered to write down the "solution".
Instructions for restarting OSXvnc after disconnecting the monitor from the mini
After you disconnect the monitor cable/display, Chicken of the VNC will no longer
pick up the mini; lord knows why.
This solution involves resetting OSXvnc via ssh to the mini from your other
mac. After I disconnect the display, it appears that OSXvnc running under the
ROOT user crashes (not the one running under my username). Therefore, you'll
have to sudo the command to kill the OSXvnc process. It should restart auto-
matically. If it doesn't, you can start it with the additional step below.
(1) Open a terminal Window
(2) ssh mini -l <username>
(3) run top -ousername and look for the OSXvnc-ser process
(4) write down (or remember... good luck) the PIDs for the different OSXvncs
the one that's crashing is probably the one listed closest to other processes that would be run by root (like the Kernel).
(5) press 'q'
(6) type kill -9 <pid> for each one until one of them to kill them if it says you're not allowed to kill it, you've hit the one run by root
(7) type sudo kill -9 <pid> to kill this one
(8) wait two seconds and then try Chicken of the VNC again
(9) If it still doesn't work, go back to the top list and see if there's a root OSXvnc running (I can tell the user of a process from the list)
(10) navigate to the OSXvnc folder
Mine is in ./Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc
(11) Once here, type sudo ./OSXvnc-server & to get the process up and running again
**I haven't tried these, but the problem may be resolved if you reset the PRAM by holding Command-Option-P-R keys right after pressing the power on button OR reset the PMU by unplugging the computer for ten seconds and then holding the power button AS you're plugging it back in.

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