Tandalayo_Scheisskopf, any advice?

[JeffreyWilliamson]

I was advised in this thread to get your advice regarding an issue I'm having with Mandriva 2009. If you are available and have any recommendations, I would very much appreciate it. Here's the problem:

I'm running Mandriva 2009 on one of my computers. So far I've only had one major hang-up with it, and that's when I turn it on without the monitor powered up, the desktop automatically resizes itself from 1280 x 1024 to 800 x 600. When I re-adjust the screen back to 1280 x 1024 the KDE panel shrinks, and for some reason Mandriva's ability to increase the width of the panel is broken. Strangely, when I log in as root the ability to change the width of the panel is there. When it happens I have to remove the original panel and open a new one, which involves replacing everything on it.

It was suggested by RoyGBiv that I ask you if you have any idea on what a fix might be. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!