Follow up:
I found, in another BSD forum, that some BIOS systems and mobo firmware sets don't like GPT partitions, which is the 8.1 standard. I remember getting an error message with "GPT" in it somewhere.
FreeBSD 8.2, however, defaults to conventional MBR style partitions, and shouldn't cause these problems. Or at the very least makes them easier to deal with.
Could this be the ultimate cause of the grief I encountered earlier in the month? If so, well, in the immortal words of Shrek:
"Well that explains a lot!"
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