Proper video card for 23 inch Cinema Display?

Hey everyone...
I recently bought a 23-inch cinema for my G4. Upon the advice of Apple, I purchased a ATI Radeon 9200(128mb) vid card to power it. Since installing the card, I seem to be having memory issues with my system, such as: memory lag with files in Photoshop and burning errors with my cd burner(i.e. buffer underrun errors), both of which I didn't have before. I guess what I'm wondering is, was this video card appropriate for this moniter? And also, what could be causing this ram conflict. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time!
-ian-

To use the FireWire ports on the display you will have to plug the display's FireWire cable into the FireWire 400 port on the MacBook Pro. If your MacBook Pro has a FW 800 port, you could use that for your disk drive with a FW 800 to FW 400 cable, or a FW 800 to FW 400 adapter. You should be able to use the display's FireWire ports for disk drives or cameras, but some brands of cameras don't work well with other devices on the FireWire bus.

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