Projector, spanning, top image cut to bottom - HELP!

First of all, I'm no rookie. I have a Ph.D., I'm teaching at UofMichigan, and have been using projectors and computers for years. Before I bother my AV lab (always a pain) I thought I'd ask this keen group.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION:
1. when in spanning mode (secondary screen to bottom), the top of the projected image is cut off and put at the bottom of the projected image with a horizontal black bar separating the two images.
1A. i.e., if you take a window in the MBP display and drag it downwards towards the spanned desktop, it will first appear at the bottom of the projected image and then come out of the top if you keep dragging down.
2. manipulating spanning position, resolution, mirroring, etc. doesn't usually clear it up immediately.
3. Eventually at some unpredictable point after making changes it starts behaving fine. Normal behavior doesn't appear to consistently be associated with any particular change or setting as I usually end up right back where I started in terms of configuration...just sometimes it takes a long time to get there and it really MAKES ME MAD!
HISTORY:
1. I used this same projector for three weeks without any trouble with my old Ghz Ti Book using the exact same set up.
2. My old Ghz TiBook behaved identically with a different projector, making me suspect it is a setting on the projector??? But then, why would it start working properly at all after tweaking randomly only to tweak back to where you started?
HELP!!
MBP 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1.5 Gig RAM, KEYNOTE

First of all, I'm no rookie. I have a Ph.D., I'm
teaching at UofMichigan, and have been using
projectors and computers for years. Before I bother
my AV lab (always a pain) I thought I'd ask this keen
group.
As someone who worked in tech in education as a sysadmin, let me make a suggestion. Tell no one that you have a PhD . Every prof. that I ever had to help that was annoying to work with felt the need to tell me he had a PhD in <insert discipline unrelated to AVor Systems here>.
This all DEFINITLY sounds like a projector issue. Have you triued playing with the output resolution from the mac to the projector?
Is the projector attached via DVI or VGA?

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