Kubuntu issues - follow-up

I'm just following up on my last post - thanks to everyone commenting!

Regarding points #1 and #3, this was compiz running and wm. I'm back to kwin after having removed the file $HOME/.kde/share/config/compizasWM.

For point #2, I'll deal with it as well, but is seems to be an issue in the proprietary ATI driver's package. When changing to the free ATI driver I cannot get the resolution I want (I admit - I did not hunt for mode lines for very long).