Well...turns out the monitor had an 'accomplice' :-) ... the stock CD drive that come with my Dell was generating strange error messages and strange crashes. I didn't notice the error messages because it was printed to the console and the machine would reboot in a hurry without properly dismounting the drives.
I disabled it in the BIOS and now it appears that the problem is completely shored up. Disk performance seems greatly increased now, too. :-)
Cheers!
Damien (yes...that's my real nickname...witch I've had since most of you were even born)
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