Projector & MacBook Resolutions dumbed down

I'm a teacher, and my school installed ceiling-mounted projectors, with the wiring running into the walls. The projectors have nice resolutions of 1200 x 800 and higher.
Upon plugging in my laptop via a projector cable that connects from the MacBook to the new wall recepticle, the resolution to both the projector and the MacBook is dumbed down to 800 x600, and that is IT! --all higher resolutions dissapear from the display preferences on both computer and projector.
However, I ran a cable directly to the porjector (rather than using the new behind-the-wall install, and all the nice, high resolutions are there.
So, we're all thinking that the wiring job was done poorly.
But, surprise, when a MacBook Pro is plugged into the new wall recepticle, all the high resolutions show up!
We then tried four MacBooks, and all get the dumbed-down 800 x 600.
So, why does the MacBook not handle the new wiring receptacle?

My bigger question is WHY does the MacBook Pro work, and not the MacBook?
But, in looking at what's behind the wall receptacle and plate, they ran some wires into a round multi-pin set-up, and that round-d pion plugs into the normal rectangular projector receptacle we see outside of the wall. So, though the receptacle showing out of the wall is the normal rectangular projector type, behind it is this round multi-pin thing. Weird.
So, I could've understood the idea of a poor wiring job, but whatever they came up with works with MacBook Pros and not MacBooks. (Again, I can run a long normal projector cable up to the projector and all the resolutions work.)

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