Leopard Screen share with 2 monitors

Screen share with Leopard is one of its best and most useful features for me so far. I'm doing it a couple times a day.
I have dual 20" screens. In Screen share, both show up on the other person's mac. If they have a laptop, that makes for very tiny viewing, because both have to fit on theiir screen.
If I turn on the mirror feature in the Monitors Sys Pref, then only one of the screens shows up. But on my end all open windows cram into one monitor.
What would be much better is if there could be a way to not turn on mirroring, and just be able to show the one monitor that has the menu.
This probably isn't doable right now. I'm just mentioning it in case someone comes up with a hack or method.

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