Edit to the above ( Yeah so it's a double-post thingie. Live with it )
Before going to the shop and possibly spending money from my beer-fund, I made a call to the tech for advice.
He ran me through a few things I could do right away to see if the issues would go away, and it seems as if they have
Will be looking at the next 24 hours for problem-free operation before I take the tower behind the barn and shoot it
So far, so good, and the next 6 char's are hopefully going to finish off the slam-dunk by tomorrow evening