Hi,
I was just having some trouble with MAME not running centered in my 17" monitor.
I'm using the default settings (for mame) and things were running fine, but for some reason most of the games now run about 2cm to the left... esp. the Neo Geo games.. thus cutting off that amount of video, with black video on the right.
MAmewah and windows have no problems...
I can solve this by manually adjusting the horizontal screen position of the monitor but then when exiting to mameWAH/Windows the screen is off-centre (to the right).