T500 with 2 monitors?

Hi all,
I have a T500 that is in use with a docking station and 2 graphic adapters:
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 (Driver: 8.752.4.0 -> Provider: ATI Technologies Inc. )
- Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Driver: 8.752.4.0 -> Provider: ATI Technologies Inc.???)
Now I want to run my system with the laptop monitor and additional two monitors. But it doesn't work anymore until I've reinstalled my operating system (Win 7 64 bit).
I'm only able to use the laptop monitor and one additional. Am I using the wrong drivers? Perhaps the given driver for my Mobile Intel... from ATI Technologies Inc. is the wrong one?! I just wondered when I saw it's provided by ATI.
By the way: When I installed the ATI driver software I only installed the driver, but not the control center because I had problemsn with multi-monitoring when I used control center before I reinstalled my system.
Hopefully you can help me.
Thanks and best wishes,
Dirk

Thanks for that link, but I don't get the drivers in that version installed anyway. I uninstalled everything from ATI, I even uninstalled the video device in the device manager. But after downloading and installing the drivers you posted I still see the "8.752.4.0" driver version in the device manager.
No idea what I'm doing wrong At the moment I even can only work on my t500s monitor because the second external monitor is not found anymore, too I'll have to check out what this depends on later.
Thanks and best wishes,
Dirk

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