MacBook Pro with ATI and hd monitor problems

Hey everyone I just bought an Acer 21.5" HD monitor. It supports up to 1920x1680 natively. Now my problem is that when I select that resolution on my mac it shows up in a 4:3 set-up. It works with 1680x1050 fine but since that isn't my native it is slightly burry (plus I want the extra space on my screen ).
Is there a fix for this? I have searched around but found nothing. I have the MBP model with the ATI 1600 graphics card.

FIXED: Appears all I needed to do was hook it up with DVI to DVI. Awesome!!

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