The Dock & The Cinema Display

Couple of weeks ago got me (thru a work contact) the Dock for the Thinkpad T43, but haven't got a minute to test it until this weekend.
It is an ugly, hulking, heavy, big & noisy beast.

Since the Dock has a DVI port (among a myriad of others) it was meant to be tested with my old Apple Cinema Display -with the Apple ADC to DVI adapter-.
A couple of issues I've come across while using it these past few days.

• The Desktop Effects resets to None


• The USB ports of the Dock doesn't work (not sure if this is a problem of my Dock, tho)


• When the T43 is connected to the Dock you need to actually use the Function + monitor keyboard combo to actually turn on the external monitor.


• The monitor doesn't turn off with inactivity, it does blank, tho

All of those problems are nothing compared to the freaking noise the effing Dock makes.