IBook detects second display even though there is none

I recently purchased a 900MHz G3 iBook and I want to run OS 9 on it, for nostalgia and for some older apps. Anyway I wiped the drive and did a clean install of OS 9.2.2 on it but when it boots the screen shrinks to 640x480. I looked at the monitors control panel and it says my only resolution is 1024x768 and that a second screen is plugged in that is set at 640x480. The problem is that a second monitor is not plugged in, I did plug one in and unplug it to see if it would detect that it was removed to no avail. I installed OS X on it and it does not detect a second display and allows me to use the full 1024x768 resolution.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Thank you for the info. I just looked at your profile and do you really have an iBook G3 800? Perhaps your startup disc would work on my iBook G3 900 Mhz. Is there any way you'd be willing to create a disk image and upload it to my server? I do have a iBook G3 900 Mhz, so I would have a legal license to the software, so it wouldn't be piracy. Or if you have a .Mac account (MobileMe) you could place it in your public folder and allow me to download it.
If you would be interested or willing to do that for me, I could send you the details offline. Let me know at ryandary at mac dot com.
Thanks,
Ryan

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