It's VGA (for a second I thought it was DVI from the PC to VGA but that's my old computer's setup). I can't recall if I've got S-Video hookups on both the card and the TV (not going to wrench my back checking) but perhaps that's a better option. Crummy part is I SHOULD have these types of cables around from back in the day (I have a massive collection of various cabling) but I guess I either gave those away in my big purge a few years ago before I built this rig or never had them because I didn't need them at the time.
Anyway... I guess at this point is more just tweaking my self diagnosed OCD (lol) than actually causing any real problems. It seems like I can get at everything I need (so far). It just looks stupid and I get annoyed when I can't get things working exactly as they should. This monitor/tv is kind of weird one as it is and I think, based on the manual, I'd have more onboard control VIA the remote (which the person who gave it to me lost). Perhaps there is an extra setting in there that could fix it... perhaps not. It does other weird stuff too like if I leave it turned on after I shut down it'll "wake up" and switch to TV mode with the sound blasting which, since there is no cable hooked up to it, is REALLY loud static. This generally happens hours later when I'm in bed and the first time it happened it scared the piss out of me. I always turn of my power bar after shut down though so that only happens if I forget.
Anyway, you got me about as close as I can get to solving the issue so thanks for that and thanks to everyone else for popping in and helping too. Not sure why the frack that NVIDIA utility wasn't showing up but now it is and I've got fresh drivers to boot.
Sorry, padKontrol. I'll have to unlock your plethora of annoying mysteries another day.