heya,
well I reinstalled windows and am about to install the drivers again, hopefully I'll have more luck this time around
sorry to say I'm not all that good with cables and connectors, but what I have done is connected the s-video out to the tv by using a converter to switch the s-video to scart... if that makes sense. the audio is gonna go through the sound card and hi fi, at least that was the plan!
the part it was crashing was basically the dialogue box where i could set up the output and control it properly, as you describe- the nview section or something like that.. when I clicked on the tab, none of the contents of the tab appeared, it just threw up an error with a control panel file of some sort, then closed the control panel window, as well as the display properties window.
right, off to install the drivers fresh and new, let's see what i can do this time
wish me luck!!