I was playing around with the nView utility and went through the setup wizard. It suggested, based on my hardware, that I disable transparency for windows larger than 500x500, and I accepted that ...
I've got another monitor at work. Woo, yay, lookit all them pixels, etc. Laptop has an NVIDIA Quadro 135M in it, so this means I've got the nView multiple monitor desktop doohickey, which is great.