A friend mentioned the Win XP auto reboot option today, so I will have to wait till I get home to disable it. Once I do, I will post the error here.

Recent changes:
Update Nero from 5.5.9.7 to 5.5.9.14
Updated the Nero InCD application (can't remember the version offhand)
Installed the Belarc Advisor for a sytem info (http://www.belarc.com/free_dowload.html)

I haven't performed a rollback yet because the problem began to irratate me at 12:30A (the fight between becoming caffienated and sleep was won by sleep) . So I was going to try it this afternoon.

As for the:
a format and clean install may be in order.
I was hoping that Win XP solved this feature of Win 98SE