[T60] Use Laptop Screen as Extended Desktop

I have a customer who wants to use her external monitor as the primary, and the laptop screen as the extended desktop. I created a profile in Presentation Director to do this, however every time she reboots she has to go back in an manually apply the scheme. I do have this scheme selected as the default to use when the laptop is docked, that seems to be ignored though.
Any thoughts on how to get the settings to stick through a reboot? Alternately, are there any command line arguments for Presentation Director that I could use to add a command to the startup group and apply the profile that way?
Thanks!

Heya,
There is a program out there you can download that will make this possible. It is called "BBScreenStream", not well known, but I use it myself, and it works great. It allows you to see your Blackberry on your computer screen att different ratio settings, and updates the screen at regular intervals. Requires you to have Blackberry Desktop installed, and JL-Commander.
Try it out. Uses USB only.
Good Luck, and happy holidays.
-Seige

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