Mac Mini lost 1366x768 Setting - Losing my mind!!!

I am about to lose my mind!! I have spent 4.5 hours today on this and made no progress. I have a Mac Mini that was working great on 1366x768 on my Vizio 50" Plasma. I just moved into a new house in the last week, went to set it all back up and it will not find 1366x768. I am currently on 1024x768 at 60hz. I have tried resetting my PRAM and the PMU. I have deleted the com.apple.windowserver.plist file hoping the option would return, but no joy.
This has worked perfectly for 7 months and all I've done is disconnect, move, reconnect, and power up. What's wrong.
Please help the insanity go away!!!!
Trey

Sorry, I kinda did an SMC already, but didn't mentioned it...since it's just removing power effectively.
I have triple checked the TV settings. There's really nothing to adjust. The TV is Auto Adjusting.
I just trashed the com.apple.windowserverXXXXX.plist files, and the Users/user/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.preference.displays.xxxxxxxxxx. plist files. Restarted with no improvement.
Still reading in hopes of finding an easter egg.
Trey

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