please help new mac mini and dell u3011

I am having problems getting my new mac mini and dell u3011 to play well together. The max resolution i can get it up to is 1600*1200. I know the monitor can do 2560*1600 thru the dvi port. I am running the dvi wire to the dvi to hdmi adapter that comes with the mac mini. Is this the problem? I found on the apple forums at one point that the Mac Mini was capable of 1920*1080 thru HDMI, I don't know if this was older macs or not. I also found on that same board that thunderbolt capability took it up to 2560*1600.

I am so frustrated. I was on phone with apple for 2 hours and they were looking at the same things I was.

this is the conversation i was referring to.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3803303?start=0&tstart=0

Please help. I feel I need this but I don't want to spend $99 and this not be what I need.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A/mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter

Is the second no usb port on that fit into the mac mini thunderbolt.

Thank you all so much for your help.

So is this the plug I need?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/B/mini-displayport-to-dvi-adapter

Where does this plug in the mini?

I got the wire today and I must say that the U3011 is a awesome monitor for the mac mini no regrets.

I would put it this way, if there is I sure can't tell. This monitor is so awesome it is sweet no complaints at all. I previously had a 24" iMac that ended up getting some dust inside the lcd panel somehow that really bothered me and I just decided that I wanted to go with a separate monitor this time.

It also comes with a 3 year warranty too which is nice but it is pretty pricey.

The frustrating thing about my situation in this thread was that I spoke to apple for about and hour and the rep that I spoke with had no clue. I saw a the apple connector that I thought could help me but I wasn't sure b/c it didn't say thunderbolt on it but it looked like the same shape. I even asked her and she didn't know. Oh well all is well now.