Cool, glad to hear you got it working. The resolution problem is one I have never seen before actually. I'm not sure where to have you check. Update video card drivers perhaps?

Ok, so it is giving you a second monitor to work with. There may be a few things you can do depending on your pc layout.

On my old DELL laptop, I have a blue text above several keys. There is a...

When you say the blank green XP screen, do you mean it's green just like your desktop is, or just green?

What I meant by multi-monitoring is that if you open something in a window (so that you can...

Sounds like it's multi-monitoring. Open something and see if you can drag that window off to the right or left of the screen.