Well, I should really start this post by thanking Robin and Stiva. They were great with providing suggestions for resolving my laptop monitoring issues. While their exact suggestions were good, I was able to find a solution in response to hearing them. It was a problem related to a resolution problem.

It actually kicked off when I downloaded City of Heroes, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) similar to World of Warcraft. The major difference is that instead of being a fantasy world, it is set in a major city that is people by superheroes and suprvillain. I haven't been able to get it to work. In loading it, I think it adjusted the screen resolution down.

I had figured it messed things up by adjusting it down. Stiva and Robin's comments triggered thoughts in me that made me go in and play some more with the screen resolution, and I resolved it lickety-split. THANK YOU, GUYS!

So, now everything is looking just like it is supposed to.