Lion 10.7.2 Display Malfunction

I am a new Mac User and am getting extremely frustrated with the workaround I had to do in order to show a display on my Sony Tv.  Luckily being an engineer I was able to figure out how to get it working in two hours... but it is only a temporary fix, as soon as I unplug it it wont work again. 
When I first plugged my Macbook Pro (Lion 10.7.2) into my 40" Sony TV (KDL-40SL150) via VGA it wouldn't connect for some reason.  I know it wasnt the VGA cable, as I had directly unplugged it from my desktop.  I also know ti wasnt my Mini DisplayPort to VGA as I tested it on a Samsung SyncMaster 204BW and it worked immediately. After banging my head against the wall I found that if I mirrored the display, unplugged it from the monitor into my tv, and selected the correct resolution 1280x960 @60Hz that it would show up on my Sony TV.  But every time I clicked the box to turn off Mirroring it stopped functioning.  I found that I had to show displays in the menu bar and then after I unclicked Mirror Displays I could go up to the monitor and return the resolution to 1280x960.
This FINALLY got it to work.  Unfortunately every time I reset my computer I would have to redo this nonsensical process. 
Also the strange thing is I went to the Hardware Settings for the Display and it showed the following:
Intel HD Graphics 3000:
  Chipset Model:          Intel HD Graphics 3000
  Type:          GPU
  Bus:          Built-In
  VRAM (Total):          384 MB
  Vendor:          Intel (0x8086)
  Device ID:          0x0126
  Revision ID:          0x0009
  Displays:
Color LCD:
  Resolution:          1280 x 800
  Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display:          Yes
  Mirror:          Off  <----- IT IS MIRRIRORD
  Online:          Yes
  Built-In:          Yes
Display Connector:
Why is there nothing for the display connector?
I looked in the Thunderbolt section and it says no device is connected... this is nonsense! 
Port:
  Status:          No devices connected
  Link Status:          7
  Port Micro Firmware Version:          2.1.1
Please give me a work around for this.  How can I manually set resolution to 1080?  How can I save the monitor configuration so I dont have to do this every time?
The only reason this works is because it thinks my TV is my SyncMaster monitor!  Ridiculous!!! Is this some plot to get us to by Thunderbolt Displays???

Restart the computer, when you hear the startup tone hold down the Option key and choose the Recovery Partition. Open Disk Utility and run Repair Disk Permissions at least 2x. After you have finished exit Disk Utility and restart the computer in Safe Mode, after it has fully booted restart the computer normally and test.

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