Route video to monitor, projector

Hello. I've recently purchased a Mini, usually this machine is connected to a monitor but from time to time switched over to a projector for big picture movie goodness. No problems so far.
However, I'm switching between the two by physically swapping over the cable (both are VGA) which is a pain accesswise and I'm sure bad for the computer, although no problems so far.
A few days ago I purchased a 'data switch', an unpowered metal box with a selector switch on the front and VGA and other ports (old style pc keyboard, & a nine pin port with same shape as VGA) round the back. This works at a basic level - if the resolution is kept low - 800*600 - all is good, but I'm getting shadowing at higher resolutions because (i presume) the device isn't highly shielded enough internally for these high frequency signals to survive their journey without corruption.
I'm looking for recommendations / advice. I think what I need is a higher quality version of what I have already. However, I've not been able to find such a device searching on the web. All I'm finding are KVMs, but these do the reverse of what I want (2 computers one monitor) and appear to be computer controlled in all cases. So I don't see how they could help. I'm also seeing vga splitters that take one large VGA image and split it down the middle, providing each half to a separate screen. These won't help either. Any ideas anyone ???

Gefen is always a safe bet though not the cheapest. I am linking to one of their products but you might want to look over their catalog to see if another solution is more to your liking.
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1316

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