My monitor. Will my eyes end up fried?

[ryanghall]

Hi,

First I'll say that I don't know all that much about monitors.

I have started to have a lot of floaters in my eyes. If you have them, I'm sure you know what I mean. Those horrendous bits of cell in the fluid part of your eye that are nothing more than a nuisance, but spoil your vision nonetheless.

I went to the optometrist and he didn't seem to think that being on a computer a lot had anything to do with these floaters.

Now, I have a Samsung SyncMaster 750s monitor and it is on 1280x1024 so that I can 4-table. The refresh rate is 60 Hertz, whatever that means. The monitor is quite bright.

I recently turned the brightness down to 40 from 50, hoping that would help.

Is there anyone that knows a lot about eyesight and monitors? Is this monitor hurting my eyes? I'm Canadian so I'd have to pay a fair bit to get one of these Dell 2001FPs that everyone is raving about. If I get that monitor, will it make *that* much difference? Is it worth the money?

Ryan