The driver update didn't have the desired effect. Still no profile updates, unless I manually change the registry entry. One possible bright spot was the discovery of a script to do that job semi-automatically, but... it's in German and designed for Windows XP, not Vista. My translation skills weren't good enough to get it working in the fifteen minutes or so before my attention was diverted elsewhere.
There's considerable discussion about how the video drivers achieved WHQL certification with such an evident bug - and why they haven't been fixed in over a year. I see a lot of trumpeting success in getting the certification - but not an ounce of responsibility for errors like this. Who is really at fault here - nVidia, Microsoft or Dell?
On the other hand, one beneficial effect of the new video drivers has been to prevent the irritating loss of dual screen functionality that occurred when the PC was locked: on return to activity, I'd see the second screen active for about five seconds, then it would switch off and push all active windows back to the primary screen, necessitating a trip to the keyboard to reactivate the monitor and then drag everything back over. As the system still knew the second screen was there for those few moments, why did it then disable it? Anyway, this bug at least is now fixed. What's interesting is that it took me most of the day before I noticed the change in behaviour, which only goes to show how it should have been right in the first place.
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