MBP freezing when connecting to my Cinema Display

My MBP (mid-2010 i7) has been locking up when I connect it to my display via mini-display port.
Usually the MBP is in sleep mode and closed when I connect it. The display will then show my laptop screen but locks up afterwards. It also seems like this problem is progressively getting worse.
I've tried to change the options around thinking that perhaps this was related to graphics switching since I tend to plug in the power connection at about the same time.
Any help/ideas? Thanks.

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External HD w/35GB of music, was only able to get on onto 80GB iPod using auto-sync. Trying to remount to load other music, photos, contacts, etc. but iTunes & iPod lock whenever I connect and then locks the PC. It's either trying to resync and then locking or just locking for some other reason. Tried holding Crtl/Alt while mounting, also tried connecting iPod & external HD and starting iTunes in all possible sequences but same result.
Despite taking a beating the iPod still has the music (knock wood) but I can't do anything else with it now. Any suggestions?
Is it me or does the proprietary sh*t b/w iTunes & iPod su*k a*s? Why can't the files just be transferred using explorer?

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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time after you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post any other kind of report — it will be very long and not helpful.

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Hello Sigh
I am sure there is no way to get your ADC connector display to function with your new Mac Book Pro.
I tried everying I could and gave up and purchased a 24" Apple refurbbished Cinema Display for $599 + tax on 4/27/2011. The Apple part number is FBXXXXL/A, Model A1287.
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d
Sent- Tuesday, August 9, 2011-- 3:49 PM(Pacific Time)
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