On a side note, anybody know if this means my Mini is defective? If I watch a DVD on my Compaq DVI monitor at it's max of 1280x1024 or 1280x960 then I get pink flickery lines overlaid all over the screen. If I use 1152x870 or below then it appears to work fine.

Using the VGA dongle and the VGA input on the monitor works with no problems at 1280x1024. The odd thing is that the monitor works fine with my PC using DVI at any resolution.