Problem upgrading to Cat 3.5 - please help

[PokerEyes]

I'm having a hard time getting the Catalyst 3.5 drivers to work.
My system:

Pentium 4, 3.06 with hyper-threading
Windows XP Pro
1GB of RAM
ASUS P4T533-C motherboard
AIW 9700 Pro
DirectX 9.0a

When I originally installed the AIW 9700 Pro, I used the
drivers\software from the installation CD. This gave me Catalyst 3.1
and MMC 8.0 Everything with this configuration was fine.

Deciding that I wanted to give Catalyst 3.5 a try, I first removed
the 3.1 suite from my system. I did a clean uninstall using the
uninstall guide from rage3d.com and made sure that ALL old ATI files
and registry entries were removed.
I then installed the Catalyst 3.5 suite. At first it seemed ok
but then when I tried the DirectX tests using dxdiag, I noticed a few
problems:

-the DirectDraw test where the bouncing white box goes full screen
gave me a black screen. I couldn't see the box.

-the Direct3D tests that test the Direct3D 7 interface and Direct3D 8
interface both give me a black screen. I can't see the spinning cube.
However, the Direct3D 9 interface test DOES work. I can see the
spinning cube on that one.

At first, I figured this was probably just a quirky problem with
dxdiag, but then I tried a few games. I get black screens on many
games. I can hear the sound, but there is no picture at all, just a
black screen. This only seems to happen for games that were written
for Direct X 8. Current DirectX 9 games are ok and playable.

I uninstalled the 3.5 suite and went back to 3.1 and everything is
back to normal - all dxdiag tests work and all games are playable.

To try and troubleshoot this, I updated my motherboard's chipset
drivers. The ones that I found for my P4T533-C board were version
4.10.1012 which I believe are the most recent. I installed these
first and then tried the Catalyst 3.5 suite again but this didn't
solve the problem. So once again I reverted to 3.1

Anybody have any ideas on what the problem could be here or am I
stuck with Catalyst 3.1 forever?

 

[Chimera]

I'm having a hard time getting the Catalyst 3.5 drivers to work.
My system:

go back to what works for you, the 3.5 cats have been reported to have some
issues that may require another minor rev to clear up. Besides that,
they're slower anyway!

 

[PokerEyes]

go back to what works for you, the 3.5 cats have been reported to have some
issues that may require another minor rev to clear up. Besides that,
they're slower anyway!

Yes, I've gone back to 3.1 for now because it works well.
However, I also tried 3.2 and 3.4 and I get the exact same problems
with those as I do with 3.5. Very strange. Anything after 3.1
doesn't work in my system.