After Booting from CD Startup Screen Resolution too low

I've posted in another thread about this, but wanted to clarify a bit more in hopes of somebody being able to help me. I stayed up until 2 am last night and still coul dnot figure this out.

I booted using my OS X CD the other day so that I could run disk utility to repair permissions on my main internal drive. When booting this way the system uses a lower resolution (1024 I think). After this when I booted using my internal drive the gray startup screen and the login screen are now 1024 instead of 1280. My desktop is 1280 after logging in, but I'd prefer the startup and login screens to also be 1280 instead of 1024 as they are now. Because they are 1024 I am required to scroll the login name list more than I did when it was 1280 and the screen also blinks a little when switching from 1024 to 1280.

I've tried zapping PRAM using option+apple+P+R as well as deleting misc plist files as mentioned on various web sites and even here in Usenet. Does not work. This actually happened to me a few months ago when booting off an external drive. I was able to fix it by booting off the external again and selecting 1280. I can't do this now as the external no longer has OS X on it. All I have are the main drive and the CDs.

Do the rest of you boot off CD to run utilities? If so have you seen this reolution issue?

I realize this is not life and death, but it's killing me still ;-)

TIA,
John

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