Powerbook and external S-Video problem

Hello,
After installing Leopard recently and after upgrading to 10.5.2 my S-Video has started acting strange. The problem is when i hook up my tv to it and press detect display my primary screen goes black on the powerbook. When pressing F7 and switching the mouse cursor appears on the external screen but is not possible to move it. Nothing gets my primary screen back to life except a forced reboot.
Does anyone have any advice to this extremely annoying problem?
thx in advance, Zoggerty

I have been having this exact problem! It happens at the most inopportune times. I have been able to recover the use of my screen (even after unplugging the video adapter) only after several attempts to restart the computer. Is this a problem with the firmware?

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