G'evening Nintos and welcome to the forums!

when you vertical split like that, it will chop the action bars. one option would be to use an addon to allow you to move your bars/buttons to wherever you want (also making key association easier, depending on the addon... bongos comes to mind)

another option would be to change the layout so 1 is above the other (horizontal split).

another thing you could try, if you have a wide screen which 1680x1024 implies... would be to turn it vertically, set it to portrait mode... and THEN do a horizontal split. it would look something like this:



let us know how it turns out... and post pics when you get it going.

(of course, if you want to talk more, i'll be on vyndrees vent tonight.. and also available via phone)