I cannot drag FCE browser to my auxiliary monitor

OK. My mini-DVI to VGA adaptor arrived an hour ago (thanks Apple) which I bought just as suggested by my good online friends here at the forum (thanks guys.)
I plugged it in and there, to my delight, is the Apple screen saver. Great.
But how do I get, say, my FCE browser over to it? I consulted my oracle (thanks author Tom) and Page 14 tells me to hold down the Option key, then Window-Arrange-Set Custom layout, all of which I did. Nothing happened. Nothing stirred. No menus appeared. The planet was just as it was ten seconds earlier.
I re-read the instructions. They had no changed,either. I dove into the forum archives and went back many many strings. Nada.
Now what?
I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

Yikes. I think I am over my head.
I followed your suggestion and was given a choice of mirroring or nothing.
I chose nothing. That's what I got. Nothing. So I chose mirroring. Bingo. There on my extra monitor was a replica of my Apple screen - the Safari one I was using, and a copy of my cursor. But the page on my Mac is swollen. So much so that I can't see or reach the corners with all those useful bits of purpose. The type is blurred slightly. And of course, mirroring is not what I want, is it? I want to have something different on my extra monitor, not the same thing.
Any thought on how I can set this up as an external when that option does not seem to be offered? What am I missing?

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