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This does seem to be true in this case, and I agree, sometimes you do have to do that, and I am speaking from personal experience.

At any rate, after I had posted my previous message, I tried exactly that. Without restarting but once, I uninstalled the driver, as well as the entire CCC. Then, when it was on a 2006 driver in VGA mode (weird wild stuff, my man... ), I tried to install two versions of the Radeon driver, and quickly found out, which matched your assertion that this baby cannot be run in X1600-mode exclusively. I should hardly complain, as when I fired up a game recently, not only did it work, it went into "64-bit mode". I thought what the...Apparently, it "acts as an X1600" when prompted to do so. Would that be fair to say?

Anyway, I suppose I've given up on the X1600-only issue. However, I have never been able to install a newer driver than the one from 6/21/07. Not on my x86 Thinkpad, not on this one, when it was still running the x86 version of Vista, nor now, in its x64 days. Not ever. Not at all.

So this Catalyst Control Center is great and everything...but it may be the culprit in preventing me, at least to some extent, from installing the latest V5200 driver, which has been 8.44 for some time, if I'm not mistaken!? I'll give you one example, which ought to be quite "telling". When I had the CCC installed only, along with a generic driver. I attempted to, for the 27th time probably, to install the driver from 12/20/07, which is on ATI's site even, and it came back with "All components are up to date"...???

To make the long story even longer, I saw the ATI chip on my motherboard, and I want to say that it said X1600. I'm not sure at all, though. I can go back in and take a look, but let's see if the V5200 driver can be installed at all...lol.

Thanks again for all your input and help! More kudos to you!