IChat screen sharing with dual monitors on client

Hello,
I'm trying to help a buddy out via screen sharing. The problem is he has two monitors. When I connect, they both appear as one display on my monitor resulting in a very small & hard to view image.
Is there a way to only show one monitor at a time? I know this works with regular screen sharing when Macs are on the same LAN, but I can't figure out how to do it via iChat.
thanks,
Shaun

Hi,
They could of course set the screen/Monitor to Mirror for a while as well
Also in the arrangement part of the Displays they could set it to have on on top of the other which might display slightly better if your Screen is 4 X 4 ratio
8:20 PM Saturday; December 5, 2009
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