Mac Mini + Dell 2707 WFP via Denon AVR4310 = no image

Hi,
I have the above setup (having upgraded from a Yamaha RXV2700). I can get all my other devices to work alright-but am having no end of trouble with the Mac Mini.
The Denon is Connected to the Dell with a HDMI-DVI plug, and the mini is connected to the Denon with a similar cable.
I've tried changing resolutions-with no luck. If I reboot the mini, I do see the Apple startup screen with the spinner, then the blue screen that is displayed before the desktop starts-but it never gets past this point.
If I ssh to the mac mini at this point and tail /var/log/system.log, I see the following error repeated over and over:
11/07/2009 09:02:32 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.WindowServer) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds \
11/07/2009 09:02:32 ReportCrash[126] Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/WindowServer2009-07-11-090231zim.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0 \
11/07/2009 09:02:42 ReportCrash[128] Formulating crash report for process WindowServer[127] \
11/07/2009 09:02:42 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.WindowServer[127]) Exited abnormally: Floating point exception \
11/07/2009 09:02:42 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.WindowServer) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds \
11/07/2009 09:02:42 ReportCrash[128] Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/WindowServer2009-07-11-090241zim.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0 \
11/07/2009 09:02:52 ReportCrash[130] Formulating crash report for process WindowServer[129]
(etc).
any ideas or suggestions?
Regards,
Raymond Barlow

I should clarify that when I say perhaps the mini is running low on memory, I mean low on shared video memory, since the computer has 16GB installed. I'm not sure how to view or test shared video memory allocation.

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