fragmented widescreen workspace

A spare monitor. An ATI FireGL E1 video card with a DVI port. A DVI/VGA adaptor. Usable desk space. A few connections, and seconds later, I am set up with two monitors. I still have issues with certain windows spanning the two monitors in oh-so-ugly a fashion (coincidentally, they are all MSFT applications!). But this is both useful (visual compares, output monitoring) and cool (do I need to say the words?).