Is there a way to keep my 2nd, iMac connected monitor, from timing out?

I own A 27" iMac that was purchased in late 2012. For the most part, I love this machine.
The one thing that is a total drag, is that when I connected an Apple 30 inch Cinema Display to my iMac, using Apple's Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter, I got all kinds of noise and articfacts that Apple tech support was not able to resolve.
So I brought a similar product to the dual link adapter (suggested by Apple), that was made by another company. To my delight, the noise and artifacts completely went away. Another problem occurred, however. The Cinema Display now times out if I'm not working. To wake up the monitor, I have to dig behind my iMac and unplug the display port USB from the back of my iMac, to get the Cinema Dispaly to wake up. Sometimes I find myself doing this eight times a day, which is getting old.
Any ideas on a resolution would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Will

Keywords, sometimes called tags, are words assigned to a photo based on the content - so, you could tag all your kids photos with their names, all the birthday shots with 'birthday' so to find all the shots of John's eighth birthday it would be
Smart Album
Keyword is John
Keyword is birthday
Year is whatver...
Some ideas about organising in iPhoto:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 40k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a  typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John  to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.

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