Well I definitely appreciate the help big time. I am just going to pave the machine and reinstall the OS and monitor issues a little more closely. Thanks again!
Sigh... Even after I repaved the machine and installed a fresh copy of dell's version of Windows 7 32, I am still having this driver issue. I have done all of dell's driver updates and bios updates and the problem persists... The ONLY things I did were all of the windows updates and then disabled the firewall.... One would think that I shouldn't be experiencing this... Deffiniitely bizzare.