Black remote terminal display with RDC

I have not been able to solve a problem I have had all along using
RDC to connect from my Mac Mini or MacBook Pro to my office Windows XP
machine. The first time I connected everything looked fine, but after
that I can connect, but the terminal display is a totally black window
so I cannot log in. I have tried changing the size and resolution of
the window using the 'Options' menu but nothing does any good.
Someone a few months ago suggested deleting one of the preferences
files, and that also seemed to work once, but never again. It is hard
to believe that I am the only one experiencing this, but I have been
watching this group for months and no one else has mentioned it.
Any ideas from the gurus?

On May 7, 3:19 pm, dawn <dlo... DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have not been able to solve a problem I have had all along using
> RDC to connect from my Mac Mini or MacBook Pro to my office Windows XP
> machine. The first time I connected everything looked fine, but after
> that I can connect, but the terminal display is a totally black window
> so I cannot log in. I have tried changing the size and resolution of
> the window using the 'Options' menu but nothing does any good.
> Someone a few months ago suggested deleting one of the preferences
> files, and that also seemed to work once, but never again. It is hard
> to believe that I am the only one experiencing this, but I have been
> watching this group for months and no one else has mentioned it.
> Any ideas from the gurus?

I had the same problem and follwed these instructions on changing the
MTU size. Everything worked fine once I set it to 1400
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303192

I haven't tried running again since I shut down, but I read somewhere
that I may need to change this each time I want to use RD as the
computer will reset itself.