K7D Master-L graphics problem: multiple display adapters/no winxp star

Hiya,
I just recently bought a new K7D Master-L and I've had a few problems with it. Other than these issues the board has been great, but this is getting pretty annoying and I can't seem to fix it, so I'm posting here for advice/help/solutions.
System Specs: I have two AthlonMP 1900+ and 786MB Corsair RAM (registered PC2100, 512MB in slot 1, 256MB in slot 2). I have a WD400JB (40GB ATA100 drive with 8MB buffer) and a generic IDE CD/DVD-ROM. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AGP card running at 4x.
When I first installed the motherboard I tried to load Windoze XP on it (actually I first used Linux but had ...driver problems). Anyway XP seemed to install fine, but upon reboot, the system would get to the "progress bar"/"OS loading" screen (the small blue bar that goes back and forth) and the bar would get stuck exactly 2 "bars" from where it started--every time. I could boot into safe mode, but nothing seemed screwy. Doign the command-line boot (I think) where it shows the drivers it is loading, it got to the "agpgart" file then stopped, maybe this was the problem. I gave up after a dozen reboots or so, trying various things, and installed Windows 2000+SP3.
Win2K installed fine, and after installing the drivers on MSI's site for northbridge, southbridge, audio, and lan, and installing ATI's latest Catalyst 3.4 drivers (I also tried 3.2), device manager had no more problems, save one.
The problem is that there are two display adapters listed: "RADEON 9700" and "RADEON 9700 (Secondary)". There were two adapters listed before I installed the drivers, called something like "Display Adapter" and "Display Adapter (VGA compatible)". In Properties it says "PCI Slot 4 (PCI bus 1, device 5, function 0)", is this normal for AGP cards? Here is a screenshot (I disabled one to see if that helped my settings-loss problem, but it doesn't):
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Whats worse is that the display settings don't seem to stick around across reboots--it always reverts to the default settings of 640x480x16--which is extremely annoying. These problems exist regardless of whether I have a Service Pack installed (currently I'm running on a fresh Win2K install with no updates and having the same issues). I've tried multiple drivers for the card and no change, I've tried with/without the updated chipset drivers, and I've had this same setup work on my previous motherboard (Tyan Tiger MP) without seeing multiple display adapters.
Any ideas? Or is there something that might fix my WinXP startup freeze? If so I could reinstall WinXP and see if that has the same multiple adapter problem...
Thanks for any advice.
Josh

Well my system just booted into 640x480x16, so it appears those registry changes didn't fix the issue. The registry settings were simply changed back to 640x480x16 for some reason. I haven't reinstalled the motherboard drivers, but I gathered them all up and I'll try this later today. Here are the latest drivers I found, all from MSI's site:
Onboard AC97 Codec Driver
Support model:   K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description:   AMD AC97 Codec Driver version 10B
Date:      2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/AC97_Codec.exe>
Intel 10/100 LAN device driver for Win2000
Support model:   MS-6508...MS-6501...MS-9202
Description:   A formal release from Intel.
      For integrated Intel 10/100 Lan.
Date:      2003-2-25
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/intel_Win2000_for_100.exe>
AMD 762 Driver
Support model:   K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description:   - WHQL Certified Driver
      - Added support for Windows XP
      - Changed settings to only use auto-compensation for the AMD-762 (MP) Northbridge(2000/XP).
Date:      2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/MINIPORT_533.EXE>
AMD 768 Driver
Support model:    K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description:   - WHQL Certified Driver
Date:       2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/POWMGMT_122S.EXE>
AMD EIDE Driver
Support model:    K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description:   - WHQL-Certified for Windows 2000/XP ONLY. Version 1.43s
Date:      2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/EIDE_143S.EXE>
Microsoft Windows® 2000 Patch for AGP Applications on AMD platforms
Support model:   K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description:   This is a registry file for Windows 2000
Date:      2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/largePageMinimum.reg>
Award® BIOS I have 1.6 (?)
File Size:   234KB
Version:   1.82
Update date:   2003-5-12
Update Description:   Support AMD MP 2800+ in correspondance with AMD web site recommendation
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/bos_exe/6501v182.exe>
*** NOT USED: OLD DATE AND WRONG CHIPSET NUMBER ***
Onboard NIC Driver
Support model    K7D Master (MS-6501)
Description    
-Intel GD82559ER LAN chipset driver
Date    2002-8-20
http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/E100CE.exe>
We shall see if this fixes the multiple adapter problem. As far as the display settings problem, I don't know that the deal is. It works fine on other motherboards with the same hardware and drivers, so it must be something with the K7D, Windows, and ATI interaction.
Josh
P.S.: There is a bug with this forum software and apostrohpies. Every time you preview your post it inserts escape characters ("\") before apostrphies, and also inserts escape characters for these escape characters, so quickly you have something like  "\\\\\\\'" where you want "'".

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