Mavericks seems to play Russian Roulette with my ext. monitor

When it wakes up from sleep, it often reconfigures the settings to my external monitor. It forces me to restart in order to get the configuration right. Very frustrating. Using a MacBook and Dell monitor. This problem is only in Mavericks. Never had a problem before. It is so annoying that I once went back to my old Mountain Lion. But in doing so, I lose what I need Mavericks to do.
Any solutions?

This is not a hardware or connector problem. It is something that only happens since installing Mavericks. I have been using the same monitor, standard connector, and MB for more than three years without a hitch. It has something to do with the way Mavericks sees the monitor, and only is a problem after sleep. Its and not mine.
But to provide more info: My MB is mostly closed, though occasionally open. There is no correlation with wheter or not it is open or closed. The setting on the Dell 2009W monitor is: 1280 X 800. I use the standard connector that came with my MB.
When I went back to the previous OS, the problem disappeared. But I need Mavericks. Yes, I can live with the annoying condition, but it is annoying.

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