Thanks for the advice -- turns out it was the monitor and the fact that being set as "default" was causing problems. Downloaded the drivers for my old Tatung Monitor and everything appears to be fine now (what a relief
I bought a Dell 2350. With 256DDR, CD Burner, and 60Gig Harddrive for $400 and Free Shipping, I thought it was a pretty good deal. Once I install a Geforce PCI card, I'd think it should make for a decent home computer/gaming system.
Long story short, I take back all the curses I threw at Dell when I thought it was the stupid Int. Graphics that were causing my problems (at least for the time being:)