T60p and dock station: can't do the dual monitors

hi gurus:
i have a t60p and a mini dock station. the docking station seems to be working fine execept the problems with dual-monitor function.
1) for some reasons, the laptop lcd always shows up as screen 2 instead of default screen 1
2) tried to monkey around the settings and got messages claimed that i don't have administrative rights to change... blah, blah (i am the sole person using this laptop and i am the administrator).
any idea?
any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks
_dave

Hi Paul,
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed. Or an errant process eating up RAM.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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