I would test this issue with the latest Gutsy Live CD. You have to change to Intel driver manually until https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/135141 this bug is fixed but with the Intel driver you have good changes that your external monitor works out of the box.
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