PaganArtsist, I while post my settings when I get home.  They are probably far from perfect, it was my first stab at it.

Blackhearted, you are of course correct in your observations about it not being Nvidia or ATI's issues.  And you are right about not changing the hardware acceleration system wide, don't know what I was thinking trying to follow that suggestion (you can't even do that anymore with most cards). I guess I just expect to have Open GL... and SREE has always struck me as ugly, annoying, and hard to work with.  So I guess its a personal thing.