MacBook Pro Screen Refresh Rate

I got one of the new santa rosa 15-inch macbook pros with a glossy display about 3 weeks ago. When i play games or look at display settings, i can't change the screen refresh rate. For example, in battlefield 1942, in the display settings i get a rate of "0"for my built in display! Not "60", or "75", just "0". Also, in the display preferences tab in system preferences, there in no refresh rate to set, but all other displays i connect have a refresh rate setting. How to i change the refresh rate of my built in display?

as far as i'm aware, LCD displays do not have a refresh rate per-se
the reason is because refresh rate is a term applied to Cathode Ray Tube monitors (read that as your standard computer monitor, not an LCD one) and in particular the refresh rate is how many times the gun in the monitor rasters a horizontal line onto the screen in one second.
with LCD displays, because they don't use a gun and are not based on CRT technology, they don't have a refresh rate
i could be wrong though, but i'm sure i read somewhere about this

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