T60p, Vista and External Displays Problem

I have a T60p with the ATI video running Vista that in the office gets dropped on a docking station and has 2 displays conncted to it, one through the DVI connection and one through the analog connection. If I start the machine with it on the docking station it uses the DVI display as the primary and the VGA/analog one as the secondary. That is fine.
When I leave the office I use it as a laptop or sometimes at home I'll drop it on another docking station that doesn't have anything but a network connection and sometimes an external drive connected to it, and then RDP to it from one of my home machines. When I come back to the office the display setup is always confused.
Usually it will reverse the 2 displays making the analog one the primary (this is very annoying), but sometimes it will only display to one of the external displays and sometimes it will just display to the built in display and to neither external display even though the thing is in the docking station and the lid closed. Nothing seems to fix this when it happens... I can go to the display adaptor settings or the ATI control pannel and swap the display positions, but it still treats the analog as the primary (start menu, taskbar...) which I don't want, and if I reboot it it will go back to using the DVI as primary no matter what I leave the display settings at.
Any ideas how to get it to do the same thing every time it's on the docking station in my office? (I don't care what it does on the docking station at home, I if it's on that docking station it only gets RDP'ed into)

Thinking out loud... is it possible it's the docking station? One of my guys here at work has done a little research about similar problems one of our users is having and there appeares to be some evidence that swapping docking stations might fix it.

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