Quote - I assume this problem is due to some Vue/ATI disfunction. 

Yep, that'd be my guess. Never seen anything like THAT on any of my Vue machines-- and they all run nVidia.

Quote - It seems the programmers have their hands full so I won't be bothering them with my little problems. 

I certainly woud submit this to support. Else, it can never be fixed.

Couple of thoughts:

1. I assume you have the latest drivers-- just thought I'd mention it again;
2. You might try turning COMPLETELY OFF hardware acceleration on your card (WinXP-> Display Properties -> Settings tab->Advanced button--> Troubleshooting tab and then see if it doesn't work. If it does work, then start moving the Hardware acceleration slider a bit towards "FULL" and keep checking until it breaks. It may solve your problem-- hope it helps :-)