Chris, didn't the first program, with the 16-bit display asking for all the buffers, just bomb out and not open the display, because your results show there is no stencil buffer supported. Normally on my systems if a buffer isn't supported it flat out wont open the mode and will bomb quit the application.
OpenGL reporting errors
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