Dual Monitor: a dream and a static wallpaper

I just bought the OD basic. I was trying to make the Deskspace to work.
Finally, I was able to display a static background on one monitor and an animated background on another monitor.
(I understand that there is an animated background that works on both monitor on diffrent graphic cards.  But selection is limited.  Really cool with dynamic positioning).

Assumption: both monitor display a wallpaper to start with.

These are the steps I have taken.  I need to do step 1 - 3  twice.
1.  Righ click on the screen. Click Properties to bring up Display properties dialog box. (or use DeskScapes app).
2.  a. click on Deskscape tab
         1. choose your dream
         2. set Position to center or whatever that works well with the selected dream.
         3. click Apply (the animated background should appear on primary screen)
     .b. click on Desktop
    1. choose a static background/wallpaper
    2. set position to center
    3. click apply ( during the first try, both screen will display the static background.
                  during the second try, the anumated background stays on the primary screen and the secondary screen will now display the second                       screen.)
3.  click ok to close dialog box.
4.  repeat step 1 to 3 using the same dream/position and static background/position. On the second try, I need to select a diferent static background so that the Apply button will be enabled then select the same static background from the first try before clicking apply.  After hitting OK on the second time both static and animated should stay.
  
There you go having animated background on primary screen with static wallpaer on the secondary monitor. 

Notes:
1) The primary monitor is attached to the motherboard's graphic card while the second monitor is attached to a PCIe grahic card on a XP SP3 machine.
2) I have installed K-lite codec pack full version and MS DirectX.  I have to reinstall DeskScapes.
3) I am applying this to My Colors MY Themes = Think Green.

What am I doing right and what am I doing wrong?  How can I automate it atleast with one pass or one click or run from startup? 

Thanks ahead of time.

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I created a shortcut of the actual dream file. By clicking the shortcut, the dream loads and I dont have to perform any other steps.  This works as long as there is no wallpaper to start with (Hence, set the background for desktop to none initially).

As to a background for the second monitor - I just need to pause the dream and resume the dream to create a captured image of the dream to the second monitor (mentioned somewhere in this forum - thanks to that person).