IMPORTANT! P4T533-C USERS READ
I GOT I GOT IT I GOT IT!!!!!
I fixed the problem with the boot up that I had made reference to in this and other posts, and also found out some things I think other Asus users may want to hear.
I ran a SIS Sandra benchmark on my memory and found that it was only running at 800MHz! This gave me a max throughput of only 3.4-3.6Gig/s (can't remember) and slowed down everything obviously. I had the setting in the motherboard's BIOS at the default 2.53GHz........THIS IS WRONG!
Set it first to manual, then adjust the CPU/PCI bus to 133/33. I reran the Sandra benchmark and I was getting 1072MHz on my memory.......finally. And guess what.....this is the best part.......my damn machine would reboot after being shut down.......THE FIRST TIME! Who knew? This was an issue I had mentioned in several other posts in my fury to get it resolved.
Anyway, don't rely on the default CPU setting that Asus has chosen for us.........the possible default choices are 2.53, 1.90, and Manual. Choose Manual and set it yourself to get the correct bus and memory speeds (133/33).
I also ran 3DMark2001SE Pro and got a 8707 as opposed to the 8501 I had previously. Still crappy but now I can head off to Tweak3D and get a tweakin' without the fear of an underlying hardware issue.
So I guess Kingston is Ok to run in these boards afterall......just make sure you don't kill yourself trying to get it to work like I almost did.
Thanks to all who posted with suggestions.........BiPolarBill.......you were right that it was a prepost issue.
Have a good one!
Fritz44