Great stuff Nick as per usual. I'm goin to add other subjects whenever Kee-Lo is ready after the weekend. I was planning on doing this myself I didn't actually mean to shove the whole lot on him, I was just going to give him the completed version 
it just seems to have happened. Anyway here's the alternative method for ATI Mobility cards:
Option 2: This is my preferred method. It worked fine when the Omegas did unpleasant things. Remember neither we, nor Sony, nor ATI will be responsible if anything happens. Don't use 3rd party drivers unless you are confident you can undo them if things go awry, and backup the registry and create a system restore point first.
First before anything else check http://www.vaio-link.com/downloads/select/select.asp?l=en and make sure there are no official driver update releases. If not....
Head over to http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html and from the list choose your operating system in the left panel, select "Graphics Driver" from the middle panel, and then choose Radeon Family from the right panel. Click 'Go' underneath and then choose whichever driver version you want from the list on the next page. It is very highly recommended you download every driver component. These are in fact desktop drivers known as Catalyst drivers, but they can be very easily adapted for laptops, hence getting the latest version.
Now download this program http://users.skynet.be/FCB/files/Dhmodtool2.0b.exe which modifies the Catalyst drivers.
The instructions for modifying are taken verbatim from http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ (Just in case this FAQ last longer than the page does. Hah!) If you feel compelled to make a donation to the author, that page also contains information to do so.
"Extract the downloaded catalyst file to wherever you want, just remember where.
It will also try to install the driver for your card but it will prompt saying INF not found.
That's where the this tool comes in.
When you start the Mod tool, it will automatically look for a folder called C:\ATI.
If it does not find the folder, you can manually specify the path to the extracted files.
Then, and this is new in comparison with previous versions, you should select your card from the listbox.
Once that is done, the button to start the mod will appear, let the monkey push the button!
Follow the instructions on screen from here on.
Your card should now be able to install with the catalyst set.
If for some reason the installer does not install you're card try the following:
Go to the device manager, select the currently installed card and choose update driver.
Select the option to display a list of devices.
Select HAVE DISK, and specify the files under C:\ati\support\...\driver\xxx.INF
if you extracted it to the default location that is."
And you're done! Hope it worked well for you.
cheers guys for your kind comments..
and thanks tyger for adding on some useful info 
Thats the idea of these posts, to end up becoming a huge database of knowledge of a particular topic..
Anyway ill do another one soon so we'll end up with quite a collection..
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