Thanks I'll up the error reporting and check that out...
Also the time...
I fixed the title...
UPDATE: Resolution Found
The problem was in /etc/php.d/php.conf file. There was a limit of 512k for php files. Well when the file was called for upload it became a part of the php file as it was passed for upload... this caused the page to stop. So I commented out that line and everything is fine now. I am not sure why there is a double restriction. There is already a limit to upload file size, memory usage size, and runtime... seems like overkill to me.
Thanks for the help... logging worked for me... it was the log that identified a size restriction I wasn't seeing and later found.